a shutdown will hit at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. The government will shut down if Congress cannot agree on funding by Sept. 30. Here’s a look at the shortest and longest government shutdowns in U.S ...

Stocks are on course for their longest losing streak in many months, as geopolitical turmoil rattles Wall Street and ...

Trump’s public support for the 2018–2019 shutdown, which lasted 35 days and became the longest in US history ... including $3 billion that the U.S. economy never regained,” a report from ...

missing its midnight deadline but averting a partial government shutdown. The passage of the measure in a 74 to 24 vote wrapped up months of drama in Congress that centered on conservatives ...

The longest shutdown in U.S. history occurred under former President Donald Trump in the 115th Congress, when disagreements over Trump’s border wall stalled the appropriations process and saw ...

A partial government shutdown could have affected tax filing season and federal student aid, caused airport delays, and hampered U.S. border operations. If it feels like in recent months that you ...

The Senate cleared a six-bill funding package Friday night, sending the $459 billion measure to President Joe Biden’s desk just in time to thwart a partial government shutdown after midnight.

But the funding lapse was brief and technical, having no meaningful impact as the White House said it had “ceased shutdown preparations” due to a Senate agreement, which came after Republicans ...

The U.S. national debt is climbing at a rapid pace, on track to double over the next three decades amid a rush of spending by President Biden and Congress. The International Monetary Fund sounded ...

The Senate passed a controversial six-bill government funding package on Saturday after a brief partial government shutdown ... leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics ...

If approved, the package would take the threat of a government shutdown off the table until ... the package would include a ban on all direct U.S. funding for the United Nations Relief and Works ...

Tucked in the massive government funding package signed Saturday by President Biden is a provision banning the flying of LGBTQ Pride flags over U.S. embassies. But even on the same day Mr. Biden ...