About 750,000 employees will be furloughed each day, the Congressional Budget Office said, while others who work essential jobs, like Transportation Security Administration agents, air traffic contro...

A partisan standoff over heath care and spending is threatening to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years, with Democrats and Republicans in Congress unable to find agreemen...

More than 150,000 workers are due to leave federal payrolls this week after taking a buyout, the biggest exodus in 80 years.