Lawmakers’ work is far from over, however. Congress has until Jan. 30 to pass the remaining six appropriations bills or else ...

In November 2025, following the longest government shutdown in modern history, Congress enacted three of the 12 ...

I see a lot of signs out there — not one additional dime for ICE in this budget,” CT U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said.

Senate Democrats wanted an equal say in crafting spending bills before the shutdown and are about to get a chance to do so, but they’re unlikely to support Republicans' latest effort to jump-start the ...

Jacob Adams is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Jacob. In a press call hosted by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and the House Freedom Caucus, Republican members of ...

Efforts to secure an annual appropriation for CPB in the coming fiscal year suffered a setback Thursday in the Senate. CPB CEO Patricia Harrison reacted to the Senate Appropriations Committee’s markup ...

For most of American history, government shutdowns didn’t exist — they are a relatively recent phenomenon born of broken budget procedures and a broken political environment. Shutdowns as we know them ...

My latest monthly piece for the Washington Examiner magazine looks at the recent rescission law. In short, it’s disruptive to enact partisan trims to the current year’s spending while the two parties ...

"A full year obligation has gone out to states, but with a big asterisk and caveat that if we have a continuing resolution, it could get pulled back," said Susan Howard, director of policy and ...

All Capitol Hill appropriators want to see is the government reopened so they can get back to work and negotiate on the 12 spending bills for the fiscal year, while the House’s top GOP appropriator ...