With less than two days until the government shuts down, the ball is in the Senate’s court to pass a short-term funding bill.

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate turns to a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown and Trump's pick to ...

Democrats are pushing a stopgap 30-day funding bill as an alternative. But its prospects are dim in the Congress controlled ...

Regarding the March 12 news article “ Democrats divided on whether to shut down government or vote with GOP ”: ...

Washington Democrats finally have a first point of leverage against President Donald Trump — but it comes with a dilemma that ...

N.Y., and other Senate Democrats said they'll oppose the six-month GOP government spending bill and want a one-month CR ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending ...

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

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

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal ...

Trump needs Senate Democrats’ votes, but they are still weighing whether to use this rare point of leverage and risk taking ...

New Hampshire's Shaheen, who turned 78 in January, was the first woman elected to serve as both a governor and senator in the ...