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.

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

Democrats are facing just such an impossible choice right now, ahead of a potential government shutdown this weekend. And ...

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 ...

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

Donald Trump just convinced dozens of Republican hardliners to do what House speakers from John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy ...

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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans don't have the votes to pass a measure to keep the government funded through September.

Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington.

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