Lawmakers are floating bipartisan commissions, weekend work, and "rifle shot" bills to get the Senate moving again and lessen ...

Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government Employees to pass a funding extension in an attempt ...

The Agriculture Department said it can't use contingency funds to pay for SNAP benefits, contradicting earlier guidance that ...

Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution to end what is now the ...

The U.S. federal government shutdown has entered its 28th day. On Monday, the American Federation of Government Employees, ...

“It’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today,” said Everett Kelley, president of the American ...

Pressure is building on Democratic and Republican leaders to end the 28-day shutdown after the nation’s largest federal ...

The Republican administration has slashed jobs in education, health, and other areas it says are favored by Democrats.

Senate Democrats are resisting calls from the nation’s largest union representing federal workers — a longtime political ally ...

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from firing federal workers during the shutdown. U.

Judge Susan Illston issued a preliminary injunction continuing a block on federal reductions-in-force during the government ...

A federal judge on Tuesday extended a block that prevents the Trump administration from laying off thousands of federal ...