Follow live updates and the latest news as government funding is set to expire on Saturday if Congress fails to pass a short-term spending bill.

The shutdown was averted on Friday after the House voted to back a new CR without the debt-ceiling increase Trump demanded.

Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown, approving a last-gasp federal funding bill to cap a week whose events could ...

WASHINGTON − Congress passed a bipartisan spending bill to avert a government shutdown that would have left thousands of ...

The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a federal government shutdown shortly after the midnight funding deadline.

Republicans also will control both chambers of Congress next year ... in 2023 after he worked with Democrats to dodge a government shutdown at the time. The deal announced Tuesday also was ...

It capped a tumultuous week that foreshadowed how the new Congress in January might ... “We will not have a government shutdown, and we will meet our obligations for our farmers who need aid ...

Congress is facing yet another possible government shutdown, as it returns this week for one last burst of activity before it wraps up the session and the year. The key deadline to avoid a ...

Congress raced to avert a government shutdown as soon as the weekend with a sprawling stopgap spending bill that includes billions in hurricane and farm aid, but the measure was thrown into doubt ...

Congressional leaders dropped the text late Tuesday for legislation to stave off a looming government shutdown Friday night ... In keeping with Congress’ Christmas tradition of a late December ...

Plus: A driver rammed into a Christmas market crowd in Magdeburg, Germany Friday evening, killing at least two. | Giving the ...

Facing a government shutdown deadline ... House Speaker Mike Johnson had insisted Congress would “meet our obligations” and not allow federal operations to shutter ahead of the Christmas ...