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

Live updates and the latest news as U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum kick in and the Senate turns to a government funding ...

Democrats are facing just such an impossible choice right now, ahead of a potential government shutdown this weekend. And ...

Still, at least one Democrat fears that not backing the bill and triggering a government shutdown could backfire politically.

Senate Democrats say they are prepared to vote against the Republicans’ bill if lawmakers do not strike a deal by Friday ...

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

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

Federal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed. Others are forced to continue working ...

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

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

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

Sheria Smith, the president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents more than 2,800 ...