The 118th Congress is likely to have at least one final political standoff before the balance of power shifts, and it's over ...

Republican electoral wins in both the presidential race and the Senate are changing the game on government funding, as ...

Just before the October 1 deadline, the Senate voted 78-18 to pass a continuing resolution to extend federal spending and ...

“American families can rest assured now that their lives won’t be needlessly upended due to an unnecessary government shutdown,” Schumer said. The Senate will first vote midday Wednesday on ...

News Wrap: Government shutdown averted as Biden ... $1.2 trillion funding package overnight, ending partial shutdown threat The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills in the ...

CHICOPEE (WWLP) – Congress has avoided a government shutdown after the Senate passed a funding bill Wednesday night. Do Healey-Harris connections help Massachusetts get federal funding?

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning colleagues that it would be “politically beyond stupid” for Congress to stumble into a government shutdown a few weeks before Election ...

The Senate approved the measure by a vote of ... to the continuing resolution at this stage would have been a government shutdown. “It would be political malpractice to shut the government ...

The final result — government funding effectively on autopilot ... appetite for the brinksmanship that often leads to a shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the same agreement ...

The temporary funding measure, known as a continuing resolution, was expected to win the Senate ... would keep government agencies funded at current levels, avoiding an Oct. 1 shutdown that ...