The impasse over border wall funding is likely the first of many spending battles facing the new divided Congress.

About 420,000 U.S. employees have been classified as essential and are working without pay.

“The longer it lasts, the harder it’s going to be on myself and many, many others,” one contractor told us.

We’re now five days into the partial government shutdown. While the Senate is expected to reconvene Thursday and resume negotiations over how to end the shutdown, odds are that it’ll continue into January. The impasse is already cutting into the supply of something that is essential to just about every market out there: federal economic data. […]

A bipartisan committee has spent nearly a year trying to come up with a better way to do things

In tweets and in statements to the press, Trump says he’s willing to force a government shutdown over funding for a border wall. But Congress is actually making better progress than usual.

It was a busy week in Washington.

But an unusual glitch arose when Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, wanted to remove a provision to rename a forest in his home state.

Five days of volatile markets, a five-hour government shutdown and one budget bill later …