Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

Democrats have been sniping at each other in public since Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer helped pass a Republican spending bill that prevented a government shutdown. But the divisions in their ...

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at the end of the day Friday.

The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine ...

Democrats are rejecting House Republicans’ plan to pass a stopgap spending bill through the end of September, raising the s​​pecter of a government shutdown in President Donald Trump’s first 100 days ...

Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said he would vote to end the filibuster, indicating sufficient support among other party members to allow vote on Republican bill.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said Thursday that he plans to support the GOP funding bill, lowering the odds of a government shutdown. “For sure the Republican bill is a ...

So far, they’re encountering little resistance. Democrats of all persuasions, even some centrists who have long been firmly anti-shutdown, feel that voting for a “clean” spending bill would ...

Amid the tension within the party, Senate Democrats are now facing a predicament — let Trump's stopgap bill go through or face the blame for a government shut down. "We are in a perverse ...

Democrats are now mired in back-biting strife over Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s decision not to block a Republican budget bill to avert a partial government shutdown. Even a lot of ...

Johnson has previously needed votes from Democrats in the House to help pass continuing resolutions to keep the government open, including in December after Trump caused a near-shutdown even ...

WASHINGTON — Democrats have been sniping at each other in public since Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer helped pass a Republican spending bill that prevented a government shutdown.