Senate Democrats say privately that they will not allow the government to shut down on Saturday, despite growing pressure from activists and liberal lawmakers who want them to kill a GOP-crafted ...

Senate Democrats are still not committing to helping Republicans pass a seven-month funding stopgap, edging the country ...

House and Senate Republicans are sinking deeper into an impasse over how to advance President Donald Trump’s vast legislative agenda.

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a stopgap bill to keep federal agencies funded past ...

Washington Democrats finally have a first point of leverage against President Donald Trump — but it comes with a dilemma that ...

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending ...

The proposal funds the federal government through September and avoids a government shutdown on Friday. But it's taken on ...

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal to fund the government, heightening the alert for a potential government ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democrats huddled for hours on Wednesday plotting a course forward on a stopgap funding bill passed ...