Sen. John Kennedy has advanced a bill requiring senators’ pay be halted if they can’t agree to keep government funded.

Senators on Friday said they planned to remain in town for the weekend, a sign negotiations may be picking up to approve a stopgap spending measure and end the government shutdown, which was at day 38 ...

WASHINGTON — The government shutdown has entered its 36th day, breaking the record as the longest ever and disrupting the lives of millions of Americans with federal program cuts, flight delays, and ...

The Senate will vote on a measure to block lawmaker pay during government shutdowns as Republicans push multiple bills to prevent future closures.

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More than seven days into the sweeping government shutdown with no end in sight, the Senate rejected Democratic and Republican plans to reopen the government. The failure to pass a funding package ...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) predicted on the Senate floor that his Democratic colleagues will find a reason to block funding legislation and trigger another government shutdown “right before the ...

The Department of Homeland Security remains unfunded Monday, April 20, with Congress still unable to reach a bipartisan agreement after more than two months. Lawmakers are divided largely over ...

One of the most confusing federal-government shutdowns in living memory began at midnight on January 31 when the stopgap-spending authority that ended the last government shutdown in November ran out.

As the federal government shutdown drags on into another week, leave it to none other than rapper Snoop Dogg to deliver ...

The US government shutdown has forced the FAA to scale back air traffic nationwide, with major airports including Newark and Chicago already reporting long delays affecting both domestic and ...