Senate Democrats are raising the threat of another government shutdown in late January as tensions with President Trump escalate over a series of recent maneuvers by the White House that Democrats say ...

The federal government is currently funded until the end of January. The failure to pass a spending package last week was a ...

House Democrats pressing to extend expiring ObamaCare subsidies are already looking ahead to a looming federal funding deadline as potential leverage in the fight.  Both issues are already poised ...

Democratic lawmakers said that negotiations stalled after Trump moved to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declined Tuesday to rule out triggering another government shutdown as Democrats press ...

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss the ruling and its ...

Senators in both parties are bracing for another government shutdown next year after Republicans blocked a proposal to extend expiring health insurance subsidies, the issue that triggered the ...

It’s understandable that members of Congress try to remain in office for as long as they can: if they worked in the private ...

The potential for another Democratic Party-led government shutdown looms large as Senate conservatives seek to curb “political passion projects.” Only weeks after overseeing the longest recorded ...

Let me say this as plainly as I can: when the Democrats shut down our federal government, that wasn't a strategy. That was their failure. For the last 40 days, the term "government shutdown" became ...

When a government shutdown occurs, it isn’t merely a bout of congressional showmanship; it's a statement about who wields power, who yields it and who bears witness. And what we have just witnessed is ...