Elon Musk has made some big claims about the potential savings to be won by the efficiency effort he is leading under the new Trump administration...

President-elect Donald Trump again raised the idea of the United States taking over Greenland and the Panama Canal as he rambled through a series of...

The battle over enhanced funding for the IRS took a new twist in December as Republican lawmakers set up another $20 billion cut for the tax agency in...

It was a squeaker, but Congress got it done. The federal government is open and funded into next year, and there will not be a Christmas shutdown...

The Biden administration indicated Friday that it is scrapping its proposed plan to provide student loan forgiveness for upwards of 25 million...

With just hours to go before a midnight shutdown deadline, the House on Friday evening overwhelmingly passed a stopgap plan to keep federal agencies...

President-elect Donald Trump and House Republican leaders had a Plan B to avoid a partial government shutdown this weekend. It just got shot down...

Although Republicans have produced a last-minute bill that would avoid a government shutdown, there’s still a fair chance that lawmakers will fail to...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday upended efforts to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend, blasting a bipartisan deal negotiated...

Congress is once again rushing to pass a stopgap measure to fund the government and avoid a shutdown of federal agencies — and, as has so often been...