WASHINGTON - A partial government shutdown was avoided Friday after the U.S. Senate approved a bill to keep the government ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) addressed the upper chamber and publicly declared his intention to vote for the ...

The Senate March 14 approved by a vote of 54-46, a continuing resolution to fund the government through Sept. 30. The House ...

Democrats are looking to prevent President Donald Trump from “illegally withholding or diverting funding” appropriated in the ...

Nine Democrats and one Independent voted to advance a House GOP stopgap bill to fund the government through September 30.

President Donald Trump forges ahead with his efforts to remake the federal government after the Senate passed a stopgap bill ...

As President Donald Trump’s administration plans to cut about 80,000 Veterans Affairs jobs, local veterans are disheartened ...

The reversal comes just one day after Schumer warned Republicans they did not have the votes needed to advance the bill. ...

Yesterday, the House passed legislation to fund the government through Sept. 30 and thereby avert a shutdown at the end of ...

President Trump assailed in biblical terms the “weaponization” of the Justice Department under his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., saying during a meandering speech in the Great Hall of the ...

Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto joined with nine other Democrats Friday to prevent efforts to block a continuing ...

Schumer’s comments have provoked strong reactions from across the Democratic Party. Schumer’s comments Friday “As I announced ...