Follow government shutdown news as Trump and Congress grapple with federal budget plans. Firings are expected soon, and some employees have received furlough notices.

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Friday he will introduce legislation to deter aggression against Taiwan by identifying targets for economic measures that could be deployed rapidly if China acts against the island.

Dueling proposals to extend government funding both failed for the third time in two weeks, as neither party could muster the bipartisan coalition needed to move forward.

The U.S. government officially shut down at midnight after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement on how to extend federal funding.

A partisan standoff over heath care and spending is threatening to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years

President Donald Trump has determined that the US is in an “armed conflict” with the drug cartels his administration has designated as terrorist organizations, according to a notice the Pentagon provided to Congress on Wednesday obtained by CNN.

The partial government shutdown rolled on Thursday with both sides dug in and President Donald Trump using the funding lapse as an excuse to cut billions of dollars in “dead wood,” as he put it, throughout the executive branch.

The federal government shutdown was set to extend through the weekend with no end in sight as Senate Democrats again rejected a resolution to accept a Republican stopgap spending bill and demanded negotiations on President Donald Trump’s health care cuts.