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The House Rules Committee voted tonight to advance the legislation, the final step before it can go to the floor for a vote by the full chamber.

As the 2026 tax season begins, millions of Americans are eagerly anticipating their refunds, but a government shutdown could lead to delays.

Donald Trump has signed a $1.2 trillion funding bill that ends a brief partial US government shutdown, after the United States House of Representatives narrowly approved the package in a 217‑214 vote ...

The U.S. government is facing another shutdown over funding, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at its center House Democrats are trying to put a stop to immigration enforcement in ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has branded the Democrats' latest counterproposal on DHS funding as "very unserious." ...

In a moment of frayed trans-Atlantic relations, Speaker Mike Johnson abruptly canceled the House delegation to Europe’s biggest annual security summit.

The spending package only funds the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks, through February 13.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed legislation passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday to end the partial government shutdown, bringing a relatively swift resolution to a brief ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...