The Senate on Friday passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline.

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair ...

The Senate approved a separate bill that allows D.C. to continue operating under its current budget, which seemed on track to ...

Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington.

Schumer’s comments have provoked strong reactions from across the Democratic Party. Schumer’s comments Friday “As I announced ...

The slashing of the budget alarmed D.C. city officials, many of whom have been making pilgrimages to Capitol Hill in recent ...

Democrats were confronted with two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believe gives President Donald Trump vast ...

To shut down or not to shut down? That is the question – and it’s one that’s caused Democrats a tremendous amount of ...

Washington, D.C., which has often had a tenuous peace with the federal government when Republicans controlled Congress and ...