By design, budget reconciliation mostly addresses the parts of federal spending that are not part of the appropriations ...
The House is expected to vote on a new government spending bill Tuesday to avert a shutdown ahead of a Friday deadline at midnight—as President Donald Trump lobbies Republicans to pass the resolution ...
Normally, when it comes to keeping the government fully open for business, Republicans have had to work with Democrats to ...
In the case of a government shutdown, those workers are put on leave because there isn't money budgeted for their job. The good news is that furloughed employees who are not allowed to work or who do ...
Republicans have put forward a budget proposal that would keep the federal government from shutting down this Sunday, but Democrats are opposed because of sharp budget cuts. Esme Murphy looks at how a ...
Congressional Democrats may just surrender rather than risk catching blame for shutting down a government that Republicans ...
Republicans omitted a standard provision approving the District’s budget in a stopgap funding measure needed to avert a ...
Things could get worse for the already-battered federal workforce if Congress fails to pass a spending bill by March 14.