Senate Democrats are split on backing a bill to avoid a government shutdown. New today: The GOP needs eight Democratic ...

The House passed a measure to keep the government funded, but the shutdown threat is still present as the bill moves to the ...

House Republicans passed a stopgap bill to keep government funding at current levels until September. Now the measure heads ...

The vote sets up a showdown in the Senate over a bill Democrats criticize as giving more power to President Trump and Elon ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said on the Senate floor Wednesday that not enough Democrats support ...

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair ...

So while we watch the process play out in Washington, D.C. – at the time of writing, a spending bill was heading to the U.S.

Trump needs Senate Democrats’ votes, but they are still weighing whether to use this rare point of leverage and risk taking ...

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 measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.

Senate Democrats are staking out their positions on a bill to temporarily fund the government, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which would avert a federal shutdown.

Senate Democrats are considering the path forward after the House narrowly approved a stopgap measure to keep the government funded.