By design, budget reconciliation mostly addresses the parts of federal spending that are not part of the appropriations ...

The Trump administration has urged Republicans to back the measure, which would avert a government shutdown on Friday night.

President Donald Trump toured Teslas on Tuesday outside the White House where he pledged to buy an electric vehicle to ...

The House of Representatives passed a spending bill Tuesday to fund the government through the end of September and avert a ...

Elon Musk reportedly supports a US government shutdown, a stance that clashes with Donald Trump's efforts to prevent one., US ...

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Unelected White House official Elon Musk is desperate for the federal government to grind to a halt — so he can continue ...

Republicans currently hold a 53-seat majority in the Senate. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has indicated that he won’t vote to ...

Musk's goal is to fire so many workers that it forces every single agency to operate like we're in a permanent government shutdown ...

Senate Democrats say the six-month government funding resolution that passed the House Tuesday is a “horrible” bill, but there’s growing sentiment within the Senate Democratic conference that it ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has accomplished the seemingly unexpected, keeping his Republican majority in line to fund the ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware about Senate prospects for passage of a spending bill ...