Most of the federal government is shut down after Congress failed to reach a funding agreement. We asked two House members — ...

An impasse between Republican President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats has triggered the 15th U.S. government shutdown since 1981. Here is a look at what sparked the standoff, and what it ...

The U.S. federal government is on the verge of its first shutdown in more than six years after last-minute negotiations on a ...

As a government shutdown becomes more likely, a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows even though President Trump has a low ...

Under US law, if the government shuts down, agencies are required to “furlough” – suspend or discharge – their “non-excepted” ...

Senators were headed back to the Capitol for another vote on government funding on the third day of the shutdown, but there ...

"Trump and Republicans have now shut down the federal government because they do not want to protect the healthcare of the ...

Republican and Democrat lawmakers are now, for the most part, locked in a blame game, as each side is holding the other ...

Democrats were seeking to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies. Republicans falsely claimed Democrats wanted to give ...

The shutdown began after congressional Democrats and Republicans could not agree on how to continue funding the federal ...

Of course, if Democrats are lying, it is not like Donald Trump and the Republicans have any standing to demand truthful budget politics.

A wide range of U.S. government services could be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of civil servants furloughed beginning ...