An American government shutdown might seem like a bureaucratic tussle, but these shutdowns have far-reaching impacts, affecting everything from national parks to federal employees' paychecks. As you ...

Congress has narrowly avoided a government shutdown for the second time in three months, by kicking the can down the road and ensuring we'll be on shutdown watch again in both mid-January and early ...

What is the government shutdown? Well, like the name implies, it's when various government run agencies and departments shut down. So how do we get here and what typically happens when we do? We're ...

The new Trump administration has made reducing the size of the federal government one of its top priorities. One month in, it has sought to eliminate departments and agencies and shrink the federal ...

As the director of the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project, Rachel Santarsiero is in the business of monitoring and facilitating the flow of information from the government ...