Sen. Tim Sheehy joins The Lead ...

With a shutdown deadline approaching, Democrats want a continuing resolution to extend government funding through April 11.

Donald Trump just convinced dozens of Republican hardliners to do what House speakers from John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy ...

The House GOP's campaign committee is taking aim at congressional Democrats for voting against a measure to fund the federal ...

President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States on Wednesday, ...

Senate Democrats are split on backing a bill to avoid a government shutdown. New today: The GOP needs eight Democratic ...

The vote sets up a showdown in the Senate over a bill Democrats criticize as giving more power to President Trump and Elon ...

House Republicans passed a stopgap bill to keep government funding at current levels until September. Now the measure heads ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said on the Senate floor Wednesday that not enough Democrats support ...

In the case of a government shutdown, those workers are put on leave because there isn't money budgeted for their job. The ...

Let the Republicans fund the government or shut it down. Democrats should stand back and let them own whatever comes next.

Government shutdowns occur when the federal government stops all or some of its operations because of a funding gap.