During a government shutdown, all government workers deemed nonessential are furloughed until a deal is reached to reopen the government. Essential workers are expected to keep working without pay ...

The president tends to prefer barking orders, rather than publicly imploring GOP lawmakers to follow his lead. To prevent a shutdown, he made an exception.

Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms ...

A strained air-travel system, shuttered national parks and a halt to hazardous-waste site inspections could be on the horizon ...

Congressional Democrats may just surrender rather than risk catching blame for shutting down a government that Republicans ...

Speaker Mike Johnson is eyeing a Tuesday vote in the House for a stopgap funding bill, but the path to passage in both ...

Congressional Republicans and President Trump are set to tee up a stopgap spending vote on Tuesday that would avert ...

In his second term, President Trump is cultivating warm relationships with G.O.P. lawmakers — and using the implicit threat of ruining them if they stray — to keep them in line behind his agenda.

House Democratic leaders are urging their members to oppose the stopgap spending bill Republicans plan to bring to the floor ...

Congress faces a Friday deadline to approve a new government spending bill to avert a shutdown at midnight—with preliminary ...

The stopgap measure would keep the government funded through Sept. 30. But Democratic leaders are opposed, and it’s unclear ...