The first government shutdown in nearly seven years began at midnight after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on extending funding.

The Senate on Tuesday spurned a Democratic stopgap spending bill, putting lawmakers a step closer to a government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline. Lawmakers voted along party lines,

President Donald Trump’s budget office has ordered federal agencies to execute shutdown plans after a stopgap funding bill failed in the Senate Tuesday evening. Republicans put forth a bill that was already approved by the House,

The federal government will shut down at midnight tonight unless Congress approves a federal spending bill. Follow live news updates.

Live from Senate floor as Congress faces a deadline to adopt a spending measure and prevent a federal government shutdown.

US government funding will cut off at midnight unless the Republican Party can agree with Democrats on a way forward.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., holds an impromptu news conference with reporters just outside the chamber to say he has filed an amendment on the Senate floor to require the attorney general to release the Epstein files and Republicans will ...