Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which does not know whether the government will be open or shut down when you read this newsletter. It will be an early Christmas surprise!

Peter Nicholas Reporting from Phoenix As Congress struggled over a deal to keep the government open ... will have no funding for employees or medical care. The Community Health Center Fund ...

Hours after lawmakers released an eleventh-hour bill to fund the government through the middle of March, Elon Musk weighed in on the proposal. "Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?" he asked in a ...

The federal government is on the brink of a shutdown — and the blame for this unexpected turn of events falls squarely on Republicans, in particular Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Earlier this week ...

Johnny Jones, a Transportation Security Administration officer and union official at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, fears that a government shutdown could be financially devastating for ...

Lawmakers in the House and Senate finally reached an agreement to avoid a government shutdown ahead of the holidays. It comes after President-elect Trump and Elon Musk demanded a new government ...

The US is once again on the brink of a government shutdown following intense pressure from President-elect Donald Trump and his newly created DOGE commission. It would mean federal workers are ...

President Biden is expected to sign the revised funding bill that lawmakers in the House and Senate agreed would keep the government open even though it doesn’t include everything he wanted.

UPDATE (Dec. 21, 2024, 12:39 a.m. ET): By a 85-11 vote early Saturday morning, the Senate passed the bill funding the government through mid-March. The House voted Friday to pass a spending bill ...

The U.S. Capitol is pictured on day thirty-two of a partial government shutdown in 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX Each Friday, I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

Federal funding for construction and infrastructure programs will remain at current levels until mid-March 2025, under a stopgap spending measure passed by Congress on Dec. 20. President Joe Biden ...

No big deal. Just normal stuff for the best league in America. So, it's fitting that three of the last four unbeaten college basketball teams call the SEC home. Let's dive into the schedules to ...