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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, are listen during a U ...

With a government shutdown narrowly avoided late Friday into Saturday morning, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to ...

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President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill to fund the government through March 14. It does not address the debt ...

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A federal government shutdown was looming Friday as congressional Republicans sought to come up with a new stopgap spending plan after a proposal backed by President-elect Trump failed badly.

A partial government shutdown in Donald J. Trump’s first term was the longest in U.S. history. In 2018, during Donald J.

Democrats said the potential government shutdown is "not on our side of the aisle" and called for Republicans to go back to the original agreement.

As Americans ramp up for a week of hectic holiday travel, a government shutdown continues to loom after a bipartisan agreement reached by Congress failed to pass following conservative fallout.

Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government or federal agencies will shut down, meaning hundreds of thousands of federal employees could be sent home — or ...