The U.S. government is once again about a week away from a potential shutdown. But it’s different this time as President Donald Trump’s second term unfolds. While a full shutdown has been narrowly ...

Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump ...

GOP senators told Musk about an obscure legislative tool that could bring legal heft to his effort and enshrine the cuts into ...

Large swaths of the U.S. government would be forced to stop operating at midnight on March 14 if Congress does not pass ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson aims to hold a vote on Tuesday on a bill ...

House debate over a bill that would provide care for laid-off federal workers devolved Wednesday into a partisan squabble ...

By contrast, Trump is using a campaign ostensibly against “unelected bureaucrats” to slash programs that help veterans, farmers, poor people and the elderly. Abroad, he is backing away from the ...

Gov. Wes Moore said Wednesday that he is actively preparing for the federal government to shut down at the end of next week, ...

A government shutdown crisis can seem like the "boy who cried wolf" story of American politics. Democrats and Republicans in ...

President Joe Biden presided over an increase in federal government employees during his four-year term, but it wasn’t nearly as high as what some social media posts have claimed. "At the ...

One described her supervisors asking her if she'd been terminated. For many, a federal government job was a marker of stability or a way to serve the country, in some cases a “dream” job.