The U.S. national debt surpasssed $40 trillion. Experts explain how it raises your mortgage and lowers your wages.

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The House on Wednesday passed a bill to reopen the government, sending it to President Trump’s desk and setting up the end of the longest shutdown in U.S. history. That vote came after eight members ...

• Government shuts down: The federal government has officially shut down for the first time in six years after a deadlocked Congress failed to pass a funding measure to keep the lights on — and no one ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. A “government shutdown” – as we’ve come to define it – is expected starting October 1 ...

Much of the federal bureaucracy is now officially dark. The government shutdown that began Wednesday is set to furlough food inspectors, park rangers and millions of other federal workers in ...

There are few things that can unite the average American more than struggling to make ends meet while hearing that multi-billion-dollar corporations are receiving generous amounts of government ...

Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. With travel delays looming going into the Thanksgiving holiday ...

Funding for federal agencies expires on Sept. 30, and Congress is at an impasse over how to avert a government shutdown. That means broad swaths of the federal government — from national parks to ...

American s are evenly divided in their preferences for the size of government. Yet a somewhat greater share wants the government to do more to solve problems than say it is doing too much better left ...

Washington — A last-minute deal was reached Saturday to avert a government shutdown. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy brokered a bipartisan short-term spending bill that passed both the House and Senate ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a last-minute spending bill Saturday night averting a government shutdown that would have triggered a calamitous domino effect on the American public and economy. The ...