Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.

U.S. stock index futures declined on Thursday as investors closely monitored a stopgap government funding bill amid ...

N.Y., said Wednesday that Democrats would reject a government funding bill that Republicans wrote and passed through the ...

Senate Democrats say they are prepared to vote against the Republicans’ bill if lawmakers do not strike a deal by Friday ...

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

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

U.S. Senate Democrats were wrestling on Wednesday with how to respond to a stopgap funding bill passed by the ...

Senate Democrats are staring down a major dilemma as they agonize over how to handle the GOP’s stopgap spending bill in the ...

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal ...

The House passed a government funding bill, daring Senate Democrats to oppose it and risk a partial shutdown as stocks wobble ...

Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place as they must choose between shutting down the government or folding to ...