When a lapse in funding occurs, the law requires agencies to cease activity and furlough “non-excepted” employees. Excepted ...

The U.S. government is on the brink of the first federal government shutdown in almost seven years, as Senate Democrats voted ...

Senate Democrats voted down a Republican funding bill to keep the government open Tuesday evening; with this development, the ...

Federal departments and agencies have put out guidance about which programs will stay open and which ones won't during the ...

Both Republican and Democratic proposals that would have funded the government past Tuesday failed in the Senate, all but ...