President Donald Trump shocked the nation eight years ago when his first joint address to Congress was, well, presidential.

When President Donald Trump announced last week he wanted Congress to “pass a clean, temporary government funding Bill,” that should have dropped the chances of a federal shutdown to near zero. After ...

The longest government shutdown in US history during President Trump's first term, lasting 35 days from December 2018 to ...

Republicans and Democrats are in urgent negotiations to prevent a government shutdown by the March 14 deadline.

US Congress remains deadlocked over a government funding deal with the March 14 deadline approaching. While some lawmakers ...

Trump and congressional leaders have lost hope in a full government funding deal and pivoted toward a stopgap bill for the ...

Top appropriators are still in search of a deal to fund the government with 10 days until a shutdown deadline, as talk in the ...

Despite most of the agency being exempt from deferred resignations and the government-wide hiring freeze, early retirement ...

The Senate voted Monday to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation's education chief, a role that places her atop a department that President Trump has vilified and vowed to ...

Trump’s desire to test spending powers may trigger a government shutdown. What’s at stake: Trump and his advisers say he can withhold money that Congress orders be spent. Democrats worry he’ll empower ...

President Donald Trump's flurry of executive actions may foreshadow fewer congressional requests in his address to a joint session of Congress.

Congress has until 11:59 p.m. March 14 to pass a measure to keep the government operating at full throttle — and there's no ...