Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took heavy criticism from fellow Democrats for backing the GOP measure, which he called ...

By Richard Cowan, Bo Erickson and Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending ...

Senators moved quickly to cobble together a standalone bill to shield Washington D.C. from a $1 billion budget cut ...

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tussled with reporters Friday, pushing back against the notion that the Democratic ...

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

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox.

With funding set to run out at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, several more Senate Democrats remain non-committal while others publicly ...

Several Senate Democrats have said they will not vote in favor of the current spending bill, raising the chances of a ...

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