Congress failed to fund the government, resulting in a shutdown. Agencies prepare for furloughs and layoffs with the reminder of the long-lasting 2018 shutdown.

Roughly 66,000 federal employees in Pennsylvania are either furloughed or working without pay, union officials said at a press event Wednesday, while several counties have or are expected to furlough staff due to a lack of state funding.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Background.

Withholding Federal Taxes as a New Weapon Against Trump’s America and Bringing Red States to Its Knees For decades, the political divide between red and blue states has been a defining feature of American governance. While disagreements on social and ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of trying to “bully” states into accepting conditions that require them to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get disaster funding after he ruled earlier that those actions were unconstitutional.

The federal government is currently shut down. NPR's network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.