Plus: A closer look at the anonymous world of 3D-printed guns. A Georgia court disqualifies Fani Willis in Donald Trump's ...

TSA and air traffic controllers will have to work, but without regular paychecks. During a 2018-19 shutdown, many chose not ...

"Tonight the Senate delivers good news for America: there will be no government shutdown right before Christmas," Schumer ...

What was once a quick turnaround for reopening the federal government has more recently become a much longer waiting game.

Once again Congress is on the edge of a government shutdown because of a failure to ... The new deadline is December 20, nine days away. The last time, 78 senators voted in favor and 18 against.

There hasn't been a government shutdown since 2019 — under the Trump administration. That 35-day budget standoff cost the U.S ...

With a shutdown looming by the end of the week, Republicans face pressure from Trump and his ally Elon Musk to drop the funding bill they negotiated with Democrats. Elon Musk, a close ally of ...

As Republicans scramble on Capitol Hill to get a new government funding agreement passed, many federal workers are now in ...

The BriefA government shutdown looms as the Trump-backed spending bill fails in the House.Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on ...

When the government shuts down, major nonessential services cease operation, meaning many federal employees may go without pay.

The federal government has closed down 21 times since 1977, with a total of 162 days. That's an average of nearly eight days per shutdown. The president with the highest number of shutdown days is ...