Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...

The Democratic Party appears fractured as a torrent of frustration and anger has been unleashed on Senate Democratic Leader ...

The Senate is nearing a key test vote as lawmakers work to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare.

A vote to end debate on the House-passed stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown will take place on Friday ...

House Republicans passed a stopgap bill to keep government funding at current levels until September. Now the measure heads ...

Government shutdown deadlines — and even full-on shutdowns — aren’t new for Washington, but this time, with federal funding ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending ...

Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the federal government rather than support a House-approved budget resolution to ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, N.Y.) spoke from the Senate floor a day after he said Democrats were prepared to ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of the federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

Their support meant the bill was able to break the 60-vote threshold to avoid a filibuster, 62-38. The nine Democrats are a ...

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate ...