A federal government shutdown would be a harmful measure, but one that may be necessary to stop the Trump administration’s ...

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

WASHINGTON >> U.S. Senate Democrats huddled for hours today plotting a course forward on a stopgap funding bill passed by the Republican-controlled House, with only two more days remaining before a ...

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 ...

Will Senate Democrats cave to Trump to prevent a government shutdown? - Analysis: Democrats have two choices – let the ...

The minority leader’s slap-dash attempt to shut down the government at this moment marks an especially sad chapter for the disappearing Democrats.

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

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair ...

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

The fate of this bill now rests in the Senate. Democrats are in a politically risky decision because they don’t want to be ...