Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has signaled his party is prepared to let the government shut down. Why it ...

After meeting with his conference, the Senate minority leader said "Republicans do not have the votes" to advance the ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.

President Trump has made large scale changes to the federal workforce even before receiving mass layoff plans from federal ...

Senate Democrats are staring down a major dilemma as they agonize over how to handle the GOP’s stopgap spending bill in the ...

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who has routinely voted against government spending bills, said what’s changed is Trump in the White ...

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

The Education Department's civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration's layoffs.

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal to fund the government, heightening the alert for a potential government ...

The proposal funds the federal government through September and avoids a government shutdown on Friday. But it's taken on ...

Donald Trump just convinced dozens of Republican hardliners to do what House speakers from John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy ...

Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place as they must choose between shutting down the government or folding to ...