Washington — Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington. Lawmakers have until the end of the ...

The House passed a bill Tuesday, 217-213, that would keep the government funded through September. The measure next heads to the Senate where prospects for passage remain uncertain as the threat ...

Yet another government shutdown is looming. If that feels like dé·jà vu, that's because Americans were just in the same predicament in December when federal spending was about to dry up and ...

Crikey this week began cataloguing the Trump government’s moves which happen to mimic those of fascist governments as they seize the levers of power. Just the tangible, quantifiable actions.

March 11, 2025 Portugal’s Parliament ousted the center-right government in a vote of no confidence on Tuesday, forcing the third national election in little more than three years. The year-old ...

WASHINGTON—Federal agencies risk shutting down late Friday night, and the Republican-led plan to keep them open has Democrats in Congress backed into a corner with few—if any—good options ...

Congress has approved a stopgap bill to fund the federal government through September 30 and avert a shutdown ahead of a Friday deadline. Overall, the measure would boost defense spending by $6 ...

Should a country’s gross domestic product include government spending? No, argued Simon Kuznets, the Nobel economics laureate who helped create the measure now known as GDP. When the US ...

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday he would strip out government spending from the gross domestic product (GDP) report, but gave no indication ...

David Huitema was dismissed from his role as Office of Government Ethics boss. President Donald Trump dismissed David Huitema from his role as director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE ...

The House on Tuesday passed a funding bill to avert an end-of-the-week government shutdown, teeing up the measure for consideration in the Senate. The chamber cleared the continuing resolution (CR ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a stopgap bill to keep federal agencies funded past Friday, averting a partial shutdown ...