By a matter of minutes, the federal government averted yet another shutdown. Fingers are again being pointed to determine ...

A shutdown means furloughed federal employees would not be available to help prepare Trump's transition landing teams, and ...

A government shutdown will set in at midnight if Congress doesn't come up with a bipartisan deal. Keep up with the USA TODAY ...

As a result, the U.S. government has always had a budget problem. Before World War I, there was no federal budget. If money was needed, the president asked for it and Congress wrote the check.