Top appropriators are still in search of a deal to fund the government with 10 days until a shutdown deadline, as talk in the Senate turn to two possibilities for stopgap spending bills. Senate

Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday publicly nudged tech titan Elon Musk to delegate at least some of his DOGE cutback efforts to Trump administration officials “better attuned’’ to the task.

Senate Republican committee chairs delivered a blunt message to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) last week that they want the Senate to assert itself and not let the White House and

The top Senate Republican acknowledged Tuesday Congress is “running out of time” to avert a government shutdown, as negotiations appear to have reached an impasse amid resistance from some Democrats threatening to withhold their votes in protest of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s broad spending cuts.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told Senate Republicans that a funding extension out to September is now the likeliest path to averting a shutdown.

Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal government as a March 14 deadline looms.