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The party’s lawmakers are willing to withhold the votes needed to keep the government open in an effort to extend healthcare subsidies.

As Washington stumbles toward another government shutdown, some veterans of previous battles caution against reading too much into the political tea leaves.

HUD blamed Democrats as the government shut down Tuesday, warning of harm to Americans while Trump backed a clean funding bill blocked in the Senate.

The possible government shutdown that seems imminent this week would be like no federal funding crunch before it.

Trump and congressional Democrats braced for a partial shutdown of the federal government as a midnight deadline approached ...

Some House and Senate lawmakers are requesting that their paychecks be withheld as millions of federal workers prepare to go without pay.

The Trump administration is using government communications to blame Democrats for a potential U.S. government shutdown.

The federal government will officially enter a shutdown at midnight after Congress failed to reach an agreement on spending.

The Senate is set to vote again on Tuesday on dueling measures to fund the government. Neither is likely to pass.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that about 750,000 employees could be furloughed each day during the shutdown at a daily cost of roughly $400 million, though that cost would fall if the ...