Live updates and the latest news as the Senate turns to a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown and Trump's pick to ...

The Senate plans to take up a House-passed bill to fund the government through September beginning on Friday, which needs the ...

Democrats are pushing a stopgap 30-day funding bill as an alternative. But its prospects are dim in the Congress controlled ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to speak with reporters as Republicans work to pass an interim spending ...

Regarding the March 12 news article “ Democrats divided on whether to shut down government or vote with GOP ”: ...

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

N.Y., and other Senate Democrats said they'll oppose the six-month GOP government spending bill and want a one-month CR ...

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

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

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

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

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