Some House and Senate lawmakers are requesting that their paychecks be withheld as millions of federal workers prepare to go without pay.

Among the wealthiest members of the US senate, half of them were elected last year, and three-quarters of them are Republican.

Former law enforcement official Derek Barrs will become the eighth administrator of the nation’s top trucking regulator. The post Senate confirms Derek Barrs as FMCSA chief appeared first on FreightWaves.

Follow government shutdown news as Trump and Congress grapple with federal budget plans. Firings are expected soon, and some employees have received furlough notices.

Rank-and-file senators began discussing potential solutions Wednesday, though a compromise remains out of reach.

The federal government shut down on Wednesday after Congress failed to approve a spending package to fund the government past the Sept. 30 deadline. Senate Democrats largely voted against the GOP bill, vowing to oppose it until the bill includes an extension for Obamacare subsidies that are expiring next year.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration froze $2.1 billion in Chicago transit funding on Friday, starving another Democratic city of funds as a bid to end the government shutdown failed again in the Senate.