Obama himself didn't appear to make a statement ... He did not mention the government shutdown. His message, says David Weigel at Slate, was "that... something is happening, and the GOP is ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (AFP) - A dramatic eleventh-hour deal slashing spending staved off a US government shutdown, ending a rancorous budget row between President Barack Obama and his newly empowered ...

House Republicans appear to be barreling toward a government shutdown, unable to agree on ... “governing by crisis,” as President Barack Obama once put it, is terribly damaging.

thinks the Obama administration was too harsh in its handling of a 2013 government shutdown. But it is telling that we have ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I show you how to save and invest. Similar to the tense debt ceiling debate this summer, budget negotiations for the funding the U.S ...

causing a 16-day shutdown of the federal government. Implementation of the ACA website rolled out as planned, but faced considerable technical glitches. Just two months after Obama's 2012 re ...

Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has led the push on the right to defund Obamacare through the government-shutdown fight. Obama said that the key difference between his time in the Senate and freshman ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown as public esteem sinks for all players in the impasse, President Barack Obama among ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) unveiled a stopgap spending bill Sunday that would fund the federal government through Dec. 20, averting a partial shutdown weeks before the November election.

The House on Wednesday rejected a proposal that would have linked temporary funding for the federal government with a ... how many apply to you? With Obama, 'All the Smoke' and 'huddle-ups ...

Another month and there's another round of discussions to ward off a government shutdown, which is leaving people to wonder how Social Security would be affected, one of the many questions of how ...

Yet again the clock is ticking for lawmakers to lay down their swords and come to an agreement on funding the federal government to avert a shutdown. If they fail, a government shutdown could ...