Speaker Mike Johnson’s effort to execute President Donald Trump’s strategy on government funding appears on track ahead of a House vote this afternoon to end the partial shutdown.

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

The standoff began in late September as lawmakers faced a deadline to fund the government by the start of a new fiscal year on Oct. 1. House Republicans passed a short-term funding measure on Sept. 19 to keep the government funded at existing levels until ...

The government shutdown is expected to end as soon as Wednesday with the House poised to approve legislation that passed the Senate to resume funding—but it could take weeks for operations to resume normally after the record-long shutdown. The U.S ...

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With the shutdown finally in the rearview mirror, the focus in the Senate is turning to an upcoming fight over health care, with Democrats hoping to regroup after splintering in the final stages of the showdown. Eight Senate Democrats broke ranks to reach ...

• Shutdown over: The federal government is reopening its agencies after President Donald Trump signed the House-passed funding package last night to end the record 43-day shutdown. Before the bill to end the government shutdown made it on President ...

The record-long government shutdown ended with a whimper — but few winners — and a long list of losers. “The American people, number one, would be [a] loser,” said Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit group.

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is now over. The backlog of work, however, remains. As the IRS scrambles to get back to business as usual, taxpayers should expect delays. The government shutdown—the longest ever in U.S. history—ended ...

The House on Wednesday passed a bill to reopen the government, sending it to President Trump’s desk and setting up the end of the longest shutdown in U.S. history. That vote came after eight members of the Senate Democratic caucus cut a deal with ...

House GOP lawmakers barreled through conservative rebellion threats on the Senate's federal funding bill, setting up a vote on final passage on Tuesday afternoon.