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.
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 ...
The bill puts significant pressure on Democrats in the Senate, whose votes will be needed in order to avoid a shutdown. The ...
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.
N.Y., and other Senate Democrats said they will oppose the six-month GOP government spending bill and want a one-month CR ...
Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his caucus huddled behind closed doors for days, grappling with what many ...
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.
The vote came at a steep price for Democrats, fracturing the party with calls to oust Schumer as leader and primary Democrats ...
Senate Republicans and some Democrats voted to advance a stopgap funding bill which clears the path for a final vote to avert ...
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 and one independent, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D ...
The Senate passed a stopgap government funding bill on Friday – hours before a partial shutdown of federal agencies was set ...