A partial government shutdown is entering its third week as there appears to be little urgency among lawmakers on Capitol Hill to do much of anything to end it. No senator objected when the Senate left town last on Oct.

The Senate on Tuesday rejected a potential funding deal for the eighth time, guaranteeing that the government shutdown that has furloughed hundreds of thousands of workers and caused disruptions in services across the country will continue.

A handful of U.S. Senate Republicans are wrestling with the impending expiration of health insurance subsidies that are the primary sticking point in the government shutdown standoff that entered its 13th day on Monday.

The U.S. Senate failed to pass a government funding bill Tuesday meaning the shutdown is on track to enter its 15th day. Both parties blamed each other.

Lawmakers on both sides braced for a longer shutdown as the Senate prepares for another vote Tuesday to reopen the government.

President Donald Trump awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously to Charlie Kirk on Tuesday. Kirk was an activist who inspired a generation of young conservatives and helped push the nation’s politics further to the right;

"The Democrats are getting killed on the shutdown because we're closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we were opposed to. So, we're being and -- and they're never going to come back in many cases,

The federal government remains closed Tuesday amid a bitter Senate battle. What time does the Senate vote today? Will the government reopen? See here.