The government shutdown has begun. And it’s plunging the U.S. into a fresh cycle of uncertainty as roughly 750,000 federal workers are expected to be furloughed and many offices will be shuttered.

The shutdown is the result of weeks of disagreements between Republicans and Democrats in Washington over funding the ...

President Trump and congressional Democrats couldn't reach a deal ahead of a midnight deadline, prompting a partial shutdown of the U.S. government.

The first government shutdown in nearly seven years began at midnight after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on extending ...

The looming US government shutdown stems from a bitter standoff over healthcare funding. Senate Democrats blocked a ...

All the political skirmishing around the looming government shutdown has obscured the critical reason for it in the first ...

Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on healthcare, GAO says.

While health care was not a major focus in the 2024 presidential election, it has become a central front between the parties during President Donald Trump’s tumultuous second term, as the government ...

Trump could use a shutdown to dismantle government functions, wrote Max Stier, chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit focused on improving the federal government.

Despite remarkable advancements in medical science and technology, its structural foundation remains frozen in time.

Donald Trump won the presidency in part on promises to deport immigrants who have criminal records and lack legal status. But his earliest executive orders—trying to undo birthright citizenship, ...