This ensured the shutdown would begin at 12.01 (local time) am on Wednesday. A memo from the White House Office of Management ...

The White House is directing federal agencies to begin executing shutdown plans after a bill to keep the government open once ...

President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programs and services running by ...

WASHINGTON – The White House is withdrawing the nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, according ...

This is the third time President Trump has presided over a federal funding lapse, the first since his return to the White ...

The U.S. government is under its first federal government shutdown in almost seven years as Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government.

The shutdown is the result of weeks of disagreements between Republicans and Democrats in Washington over funding the ...

The Senate failed to pass a spending bill to keep the government funded, putting it on a near-certain path to a shutdown ...

President Trump and congressional Democrats couldn't reach a deal ahead of a midnight deadline, prompting a partial shutdown of the U.S. government.

The government shut down began at midnight on Wednesday as Democrats and Republicans appeared to be nowhere close to reaching ...