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

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

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

Senate Democrats gave up their sole point of leverage Thursday, as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that ...

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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday Senate GOP "do not have the votes" to pass a pending funding bill, ...

House Republicans passed legislation to keep the US government open past a Saturday shutdown deadline, daring moderate ...

Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, are poised to force a partial government shutdown by refusing to back a Republican ...

The top House Democrats are pressing their fellow party members in the Senate to kill the Republicans’ spending bill when it ...

Schumer relented one day after he vowed Senate Democrats would thwart the "partisan" measure, saying the "chaos" of a ...

Six Democrats need to vote for the bill, assuming there are no additional Republican defections, in order for it to pass the ...

A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led spending bill that ...