Government Shutdown

The budget and tax package addresses everything from modern slavery to hard cider

Uncertainty can be expensive.

This shut down may be avoided, but another one looms in just a few months.

To keep the government running, a bill becomes a legislative vehicle.

Leigh Gallagher and David Gura join Kai Ryssdal to recap the week that was.

What will and won’t be happening in Congress in advance of midterms.

Steel industry is picking up post-government shutdown.

Analysts, executives, and journalists are left with a patchwork of numbers put together by private firms and academics in the absence of federal data during the partial government shutdown.

Investors seemed pleased that politicians in Washington were discussing a plan, and that lawmakers from both parties met with President Obama.