The legislation would apparently shield the D.C. government from a billion-dollar cut, but it would still need to be approved ...

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.

Senate Democrats gave up their sole point of leverage Thursday, as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans lack the votes in the upper chamber to pass their plan to avert ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday Senate GOP "do not have the votes" to pass a pending funding bill, ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) decision to advance a Republican spending bill set off a wave of anger on the ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down ...

Democrats, including House leaders and senators, repeatedly declined to answer questions on whether they maintain confidence ...

The whiplash from the shut-it-down to keep-it-alive posturing only fed the contempt that many Democrats were already ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. was widely criticized for surrendering to President Donald Trump on the ...

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led a chorus of outrage at Schumer, accusing him of betraying grassroots Democrats who ...

Democrats on Capitol Hill are waging an internal war against one of their own after the GOP successfully muscled through the Senate a partisan spending bill that drew the votes of Minority Leader ...