While many areas of the country held elections Tuesday, Congress continued to shirk its main job: passing a budget for fiscal year 2026, which began on Oct. 1. Tuesday marked the 35th impasse day.

President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a promise to slash spending by trillions of dollars and balance the federal budget. But, as the first fiscal year of his second term came to a ...

Wondering why all of this budget shutdown mishegoss is happening right now? Well, October 1 is technically New Year’s Day for the federal government’s finances. And apparently, Congress’s resolution ...

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is backing efforts to remove a controversial provision in the new federal budget that would allow ...

I was struck, no, dumbfounded by this: Debt funded all federal government spending in 2025. The federal government plans to spend a total of $7 trillion in fiscal 2025 but only bring in $5.16 trillion ...

Union leaders are warning that the simultaneous state and federal budget impasses have already started exacerbating one another, potentially leading to a much broader shutdown in public services than ...