Senate Appropriations Committee chair Susan Collins speaking to reporters. Congress released reconciled versions of three appropriations bills that will set funding levels for key federal science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The funding lapse comes despite the Senate voting late Friday to approve a five-bill package and extend funding for the Department ...

Congressional appropriators mostly ignored the Trump administration’s requests to slash budgets at several science and data agencies in a package of fiscal year 2026 bills released this week. While ...

Washington — Funding for many federal agencies expired at 12 a.m. on Saturday after Congress failed to pass half a dozen spending bills before the deadline, prompting a partial government shutdown.

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...