Democratic leader Chuck Schumer voted alongside Republicans to advance a House GOP spending bill that would keep the government open for another six months, beyond the midnight shutdown deadline.
The GOP-controlled Senate will press forward with a procedural vote to advance a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown before a midnight deadline.
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 ...
Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...
President Donald Trump and his complicitly compliant Republican lackeys ... resolutions to keep the government open, including in December after Trump caused a near-shutdown even before his ...
The vote came at a steep price for Democrats, fracturing the party with calls to oust Schumer as leader and primary Democrats ...
N.Y., and other Senate Democrats said they will oppose the six-month GOP government spending bill and want a one-month CR ...
The bill puts significant pressure on Democrats in the Senate, whose votes will be needed in order to avoid a shutdown. The ...
Enough Senate Democrats put their disdain for President Trump aside and voted Friday to end a filibuster of a Republican stopgap spending bill to stop a government shutdown at midnight.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his caucus huddled behind closed doors for days, grappling with what many ...
The Senate passed a stopgap government funding bill on Friday – hours before a partial shutdown of federal agencies was set ...