House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he expects Congress to extend the existing government budget into early next year to ...

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.

Donald Trump won’t arrive back in the White House until January. But he’ll have fingerprints over every piece of the lame ...

Facing a Dec. 20 government shutdown deadline, GOP leaders are eyeing a stopgap bill into early next year, which could ...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says at a weekly news conference a week before potential government shutdown as the ...

US House speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he hopes lawmakers take temporary measures soon to avoid a government shutdown, allowing them to adopt a full budget only after Donald Trump takes power in ...

The 118th Congress is likely to have at least one final political standoff before the balance of power shifts, and it's over ...

Orientation is underway in Congress for new members as important matters loom, including funding the government to avoid a ...

With Republicans on the cusp of unified control of Washington, Congress appears primed to extend the deadline for a government shutdown well past President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

A day after the Kerala government was informed that landslides and flash floods that happened in Wayanad in July this year ...

Congress faces a jam-packed to-do list of ... they will only have about three weeks before the government shutdown deadline. Many lawmakers are critical of sweeping spending packages known as ...