President Donald Trump signed a funding bill, averting a government shutdown before elections. Congress approved a temporary extension of federal spending, keeping agencies funded through December.

The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap measure that would fund federal agencies at existing levels through Dec. 4, in an effort to avert a potential government shutdown before the end of the fiscal ...

(Bloomberg) -- Congress cleared funding legislation to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown, sidestepping, at least temporarily, the partisan warfare that led to repeated disruptions over the last year ...

WASHINGTON -- The House passed a stopgap bill to fund the government into December in an effort to avoid another government shutdown weeks before the midterms, but the effort faces an uphill climb in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Senate voted early Saturday morning to fund the federal government until Dec. 11 with the aim of averting another government ...

The House approved a stopgap spending bill on Tuesday that will keep the federal government funded through early December, taking a government shutdown off the table ahead of midterm elections this ...

The timeline is slipping for senators to strike a bipartisan deal on a short-term funding patch before their August recess as leadership struggles to work out the finer details. Senior appropriators ...

Aug. 8 (UPI) --The U.S. Senate passed a stopgap funding bill Saturday that would fund the government through Dec. 11 to prevent a government shutdown in September. The bill was put in place to avoid a ...