The United States has entered a federal government shutdown, the first in nearly seven years, after Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-backed fund ...

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that changes would be coming to the department’s inspector general office. Just hours earlier, the Office of Management and Budget effectively ...

Furloughed employees won’t be paid until Congress passes a bill to fund the government, with neither side showing signs of budging as the shutdown entered its second day.

Meanwhile, the White House is preparing for mass firings of federal workers, rather than simply furloughing as is the usual practice during a shutdown.

At 12:01 AM ET on October 1, the federal government shut down after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement on the Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep it up and running. One can debate ...

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting ...

“Billions of Dollars can be saved,” President Donald Trump said late Wednesday The federal government on Thursday entered its second day of a shutdown amid an impasse on Capitol Hill over competing ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday defended the Trump administration for using official agency websites to politicize the government shutdown, saying the departments are just stating an ...

A Top Virginia prosecutor has been fired after a social media post falsely said he resisted the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.

The Trump administration has instructed federal employees to set up their out-of-office email messages to blame "Democrat Senators" for the government shutdown.

The White House has rejected claims that the order targets free speech. “As someone who actually knows what it’s like to be censored, President Trump is a strong supporter of free speech and Democrat ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that federal government layoffs during the shutdown will likely be in the thousands, ahead of President Trump’s meeting with Office ...