While lawmakers are working out funding for the Department of Homeland Security, Senator John Hoeven said it’s critical they ...

Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Conn., steps out of an elevator as Republicans begin a final push to advance President Donald Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts package, at the Capitol in Washington, ...

For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. The U.S. Senate approved five appropriations bills and a short-term Department ...

White House officials and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer were scrambling Thursday morning to ink a deal that would punt final decisions on fiscal 2026 Homeland Security funding but let five ...

Government funding will expire on January 30, 2026, at which point agencies funded under six of the 12 appropriations bills currently operating under a continuing resolution (CR) will be required to ...

Most of the federal government could shut down at the end of the week. But that likely wouldn’t halt aggressive ICE and border patrol operations in Minneapolis and other parts of the country. Under ...

A majority of House Republicans banded together on Thursday to defeat a bipartisan war powers resolution that could have restricted President Donald Trump from taking future military action in ...

Jan. 22 (UPI) --The House of Representatives passed four funding measures on Thursday to avert another federal government shutdown ahead of the Jan. 30 deadline. The four measures are in addition to ...

Continuing resolutions provide temporary funding for federal operations. CRs are used when Congress and the President don’t reach agreement on final funding levels before the start of the fiscal year.

The Senate on Thursday passed a package of three spending bills, hitting the halfway mark in its push to fund the government for fiscal 2026 ahead of the end-of-month deadline. Senators green-lighted ...

The Senate took its first step toward averting a government shutdown, but there’s still a long way to go on an increasingly shorter path to keep the lights on in Washington, D.C. Lawmakers advanced a ...