The Senate will take a key procedural vote on Friday afternoon to potentially tee up final passage of a crucial stopgap government spending bill to avoid a shutdown as time runs out. After tense ...

A continuing resolution keeps state government funded and operating when the state legislature fails to pass a budget. State ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald ...

The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill that averts a government shutdown and provides $6 billion in new spending for defense and another $6 billion for veterans’ health care through Sept. 30.

Congress passed a stopgap spending bill to extend government funding into early next year, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk in time to avert a government shutdown late on Friday ...

It wasn’t until yesterday, as the shot clock was running out on this session, that they finally decided to vote out a version ...

The Senate voted 85-11 to approve a short-term spending bill to fund the government until March 14. The measure, signed hours later by President Biden, had overwhelming bipartisan support in both ...

Legislature on Monday tossed the budget hot potato to Gov. Maura Healey, approving an annual spending bill on the earliest ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign ...

The proposal represents a deal between House and Senate leaders that slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in spending from ...

The spending plan would also direct some dollars to Medicaid, but less than what the state health department asked for.

The top Democrat in the state House, Rep. Robert Reives, says he's frustrated with GOP lawmakers' inability to pass a budget ...