Funding for 78% of the federal government will lapse midnight Saturday despite a deal struck between Senate Democrats and the White House aimed at averting a shutdown.

Once a shutdown occurs, an affected agency has to halt any unfunded activity, usually within a few hours. It would then furlough employees not considered essential, stop the pay for all employees not ...

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A partial federal government shutdown went into effect early Saturday. It came hours after the Senate met a last-minute deadline to approve a revised package of government funding bills.

The Senate voted Friday to fund most of the government through the end of September after President Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats to carve out Homeland Security funding and allow Congress to ...

The Senate passed a deal between Democrats and the White House to fund the government, but the House won’t vote until Monday. The shutdown will have little impact if it is brief.

Funding for many federal agencies expired on Saturday after Congress failed to pass half a dozen spending bills before the deadline, prompting a partial government shutdown.

It comes after Democratic senators refused to support a Department of Homeland Security funding bill because they objected to its contents in the wake of nationwide outrage over the fatal shootings of ...

Federal funding is set to lapse at midnight Friday, and votes are still required in both chambers of Congress.

The Senate passed a measure to avert a shutdown on Friday. But with the House on recess, funding for broad stretches of the federal government has technically lapsed.