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

Democrats in the Senate have different views on how they will vote on a Trump-backed bill to avert a government shutdown.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said that there is not enough Democratic support in the Senate to advance ...

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

Congress is nearing Friday’s midnight deadline to prevent a partial government shutdown, but a Republican spending bill is encountering obstacles in the Senate. The Senate Republican majority needs to ...

When a shutdown happens, the government isn’t able to spend money — with some exceptions — meaning that federal employees ...

Senate Democrats are attempting to balance rejecting the GOP-back stopgap measure with preventing the government from shutting down.

The Senate plans to take up a House-passed bill to fund the government through September beginning on Friday, which needs the ...

In the latest salvo in Donald Trump’s trade war against U.S. allies, the president threatened a 200 percent tariff on ...

Schumer is under pressure to unite Senate Democrats as his party agonizes over whether to trigger a government shutdown in less than 36 hours, or side with Trump ...

Lawrence O'Donnell did not hold back on Wednesday's edition of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." The MSNBC anchor lambasted the President of the United States again -- this time declaring ...