"The Matt hall version is to grind everything to a halt and we could see a government shutdown," McMorrow said this weekend .

The extension would give the Senate plenty of time to begin confirming Trump's Cabinet nominees and the House time to plot out maneuvers on tax legislation.

Republican electoral wins in both the presidential race and the Senate are changing the game on government funding, as ...

Government spending, leadership elections, and disaster funding are among the top priorities for lawmakers with less than two months left of the 118th Congress.

Speaker Mike Johnson needed to convince former President Donald Trump that a shutdown could hurt their party on Election Day even as the Republican ... need to keep the government open and deal ...

said. The Alabama Republican, who currently serves as policy chair of the House GOP conference, also pointed to national security concerns. “A government shutdown would embolden our enemies ...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning colleagues that it would be “politically beyond stupid” for Congress to stumble into a government shutdown a few weeks before Election ...

House Republican leadership acquiesced on a budget stopgap funding the government through December, despite complaints from the party’s more conservative members. WASHINGTON (CN) — Congress appeared ...

Democrats on Wednesday again helped Republicans get a short-term government funding bill over the finish line to avoid a government shutdown at ... pushed by Republican presidential nominee ...

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky ... “The one thing you cannot have is a government shutdown. It would be politically beyond stupid for us to do that right before the ...