With less than two days until the government shuts down, the ball is in the Senate’s court to pass a short-term funding bill.

Democrats are facing just such an impossible choice right now, ahead of a potential government shutdown this weekend. And ...

Senate Democrats say they are prepared to vote against the Republicans’ bill if lawmakers do not strike a deal by Friday ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending ...

The Republican speaker was able to convince even the most staunch conservatives who prefer budget cutting to come on board.

Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the federal government rather than support a House-approved budget resolution to ...

called the CR "a power grab for the White House." Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the focus must be on preventing a shutdown because closures have ...

Route 1 in Saugus is shut down between Walnut Street and the Lynn Fells Parkway on Friday afternoon. Traffic is being diverted down Walnut Street, according to the Massachusetts Department of ...

More than a year ago, the owners of the company announced the power plant would shut down, due to a lack of security on biomass and electricity purchase rates with BC Hydro that are too low to ...

A shut down would force a majority of federal workers to stop working and go without pay. Services deemed essential – such as border protection, air traffic control and power grid maintenance as ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson formally unveiled plans on Saturday for a government funding stopgap through September 30 — a ...

As President Donald Trump advocates the idea of passing a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown ... them from lingering in the D.C. power bubble for decade after decade, as some ...