The United States is on the brink of a federal government shutdown after hard-right Republicans in Congress rejected a longshot effort to keep offices open...
The threat of a U.S. government shutdown ended at 9 p.m. Saturday. The Senate passed a temporary funding bill and sent it to President Joe Biden to sign.
As the deadline for a new budget deal approaches and the threat of a government shutdown looming, representatives talked about the current status of a new deal.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed on Friday as hard-right holdouts rejected the package.
Congress has passed all its required appropriations bills on time only four times in the last five decades, with the last successful attempt occurring in 1997.