As Congress begins its summer recess, concerns grow over its ability to pass a full-year budget by the end of September, with ...

Rifts are emerging between Republicans over how to approach next month’s government funding fight, with some pushing for leaders to try to pass new full-year spending plans and others ...

Lawmakers have left Washington for the annual August recess, but a few weeks of relative quiet at the U.S. Capitol can’t mask ...

Schumer came under fierce criticism in March for helping to advance a shutdown-avoiding spending bill written solely by Republicans. He warned at the time that a shutdown would only empower Trump and ...

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Michigan’s process for lawmakers earmarking funding has been rife with controversy for years, in part because some requests have been tucked away in huge spending bills.

Lawmakers will use much of September to work on spending bills for the coming budget year, which begins Oct. 1.

Republicans broke the budget deal. Democrats should stop negotiating and let them keep the government open alone.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is sending a warning to Republicans that next year’s spending bills must have Democratic buy-in, or the government will likely shut down.

Jeffries’s shutdown warning, therefore, leans heavily on his Democratic colleagues in the Senate holding the line against any partisan GOP bills.