The senator was one of just nine Republicans to vote against a stopgap spending bill on Saturday.

Congress came to agreement on a stopgap funding bill on Saturday, hours before the government was set to run out of money.

The Biden administration said if a shutdown occurs, nearly 2,000 projects would experience delays.

The Senate advanced a bipartisan plan to avert a shutdown, but the House GOP refuses to support it.

The Texas judge who ordered the FDA to rescind approval of an abortion drug says drag shows aren’t protected by the First Amendment.

The right flank of the House Republican caucus has vowed to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker if he doesn't adhere to its demands.

The two Republican senators oppose even considering legislation to help avert an Oct. 1 shutdown.

House Republicans have buried anti-abortion provisions in must-pass federal spending bills.

The right-wing House Freedom Caucus is leading a Republican push for significant cuts to appropriations bills.

The right wing would prefer another shutdown to a stopgap extension of government funding.

Republicans are demanding deep spending cuts, including billions in cuts to food stamps.

GOP Whip Steve Scalise is urging his caucus to oppose even a brief continuing resolution to avert a holiday crisis.

Blake Masters said in June, ‘You know, senators have a lot of procedural power to hold stuff up.’ He plans to use that power.

Hundreds of people have died as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine.

Conservative lawmakers are mad the stopgap funding bill won’t defund COVID-19 safety requirements.

The federal government’s funding is set to expire on Friday.

The Senate GOP filibustered the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act in hopes of forcing numerous amendment votes.

The House Freedom Caucus is pushing another anti-vaccine message as the current government funding resolution is set to expire on Dec. 3

Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would fund the government and raise the debt ceiling.

The decision not to suspend the debt ceiling could cost the country 6 million jobs, a new report shows.

The $1.4 trillion spending bill gives Trump additional funding to build his border wall in exchange for a number of Democratic priorities.

The last three government shutdowns — two under Trump, one under Obama — cost taxpayers billions in payments to employees not allowed to work during the shutdown.

The Government Accountability Office says Trump’s team broke the law when they diverted funds to clean up piles of waste that accrued during the shutdown.

The Supreme Court ruled blocked Trump from trying to rig elections for Republicans, at least for now.

The House GOP thinks that low-wage workers who lost five weeks of pay during Trump’s unnecessary shutdown don’t deserve to be repaid.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy fought against a bipartisan measure that would hurt one of his donors.

The government spent a ton of money to keep an attraction at Trump’s hotel open while the rest of the government was shut down.

Trump’s shutdown delayed an inspection of the problem that may have caused a Boeing 737 Max plane crash in Ethiopia.

Trump has found another way to ignore the needs of federal workers.

The fallout from Trump’s disastrous 35-day shutdown is still hurting workers.