WASHINGTON − Congress passed a bipartisan spending bill to avert a government shutdown that would have left thousands of federal employees furloughed just days before the winter holidays.

House lawmakers voted 366-34 to pass a spending bill on Friday. The Senate passed it on a 85-11 vote. The bill, which funds ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson during a vote on a revised spending bill on Thursday. Congress avoided a government shutdown after passing a spending bill that was revised from an original ...

House Republicans went back to the drawing board Friday morning to try and chart a path forward to avoid a government ...

The House is slated to vote on the revamped government spending bill Thursday evening. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) initially proposed the continuing resolution Tuesday evening, but was met with ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Something is missing from the new Trump-backed year-end spending bill that Congress has ...

If Congress fails to pass a spending bill by the end of Friday, the federal government will partially shut down, which could result in mass furloughs among federal employees. The premier source of ...

House Republicans unveiled a stripped down version of their spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, Thursday evening that cut several spending programs from the bill, including the ...

The Senate sent the spending package to Biden's desk at 12:38 a.m. Saturday by a vote of 85 to 11, hours after the House voted 366 to 34 to approve it. The bill funds the government through March 14.