By design, budget reconciliation mostly addresses the parts of federal spending that are not part of the appropriations ...

Lawmakers are battling time as they seek to pass legislation that will fund the government and avert a possible shutdown set to take effect Friday.

Republicans were pressing rank-and-file lawmakers to fall in line behind a stopgap measure that would mostly keep government ...

The battle over the budget comes to a head this week as the continuing resolution passed late last year expires Friday. If ...

The struggling U.S. housing market is bracing for more problems if Congress is unable to avoid a government shutdown this ...

A federal judge says President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in freezing almost all spending on U.S. humanitarian ...

Normally, when it comes to keeping the government fully open for business, Republicans have had to work with Democrats to ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson holds an ultra-thin voting majority as Congress races to avert a government shutdown. This is putting more attention on three upcoming special elections to fill vacancies in ...

Rep. Andy Harris, the Eastern Shore Republican who chairs the House Freedom Caucus (HFC), has lined up his group behind ...

The Trump administration has urged Republicans to back the measure, which would avert a government shutdown on Friday night.

We are very unified,” Clark said, speaking with WBUR’s Morning Edition. “We are going to choose working families over ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters at a press conference Tuesday morning that this continuing budget resolution will ...