A sign indicating that the Federal Trade Commission is closed due to the government shutdown, Wednesday in Washington, D.C. (Al Drago/Getty Images) The U.S. government remained shut down as Congress ...

After more back and forth, it seems that “to be ascertained by law” meant that it would require a statute to stop paying members of Congress, but Congress could easily pass such a law if only they had ...

We explain what elected officials aren’t doing during the government shutdown. By Carl Hulse I’m The Times’s chief Washington correspondent. By almost any measure, Congress is failing. And flailing.

In November 2025, the funding law signed to reopen the U.S. federal government after a lengthy shutdown contained a provision ...

On October 1, 2025 the United States federal government “shut down.” This is not the first time it has happened. In the last 30 years there have been four shutdowns that have lasted at least a week. A ...

Federal rules and regulations cost the U.S. economy more than $3 trillion each year and dictate nearly every aspect of Americans' lives — from the food they can eat to the types of cars they can drive ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government has shut down after lawmakers in Congress failed to strike a deal on a funding bill, forcing agencies to furlough their “non-essential” employees. Under the ...

United, Delta, American and Southwest airlines each called on Congress to approve a Republican-backed “clean” funding bill to ...