La., said he expects Congress to extend the existing government budget into early next year to avert a shutdown in ...

Donald Trump won’t arrive back in the White House until January. But he’ll have fingerprints over every piece of the lame ...

After weekend with Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson laid out a tentative plan to keep the government funded that could tee ...

With Republicans on cusp of unified control of Washington, Congress appears primed to extend federal funding well into ...

Facing a Dec. 20 government shutdown deadline, GOP leaders are eyeing a stopgap bill into early next year, which could ...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says at a weekly news conference a week before potential government shutdown as the ...

US House speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he hopes lawmakers take temporary measures soon to avoid a government shutdown, allowing them to adopt a full budget only after Donald Trump takes power in ...

The 118th Congress is likely to have at least one final political standoff before the balance of power shifts, and it's over ...

House Republicans are planning to strategize with President-elect Trump on their path forward to funding the government past ...

Congress faces a jam-packed to-do list of ... they will only have about three weeks before the government shutdown deadline. Many lawmakers are critical of sweeping spending packages known as ...

With Republicans on the cusp of unified control of Washington, Congress appears primed to extend the deadline for a government shutdown well past President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Congress currently has until Dec. 20 to pass legislation to prevent a government shutdown before the holidays. But that means ...