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

Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the federal government rather than support a House-approved budget resolution to avert a pending government shutdown at the end of the day Friday.

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

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities and will give Trump and his allies more leeway to dismantle the federal ...

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

James Carville, the highly influential Democratic strategist, advised his party to “play dead” and allow President Trump and ...

Like any home or business, the federal government must pay its bills: Congress has little time to prevent a government ...

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 ...

Party lawmakers have no good options as the GOP measure to fund the government comes up for a vote this week.

“For weeks they’ve been lambasting Trump and [Elon] Musk for tearing apart the government,” Bade writes. “Democrats in a shutdown would effectively have to argue that they’re trying to ...

One Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, said this week that he is opposed. If Democrats shut down the government to demand guardrails around Musk, they risk taking the blame for further ...

There is also a whole mess of political risks in play if Democrats are cast as the facilitators of a government shutdown. At the moment, Trump, Republicans, and Musk are the primary villains and ...