The GOP-controlled Senate will press forward with a procedural vote to advance a stopgap funding bill to avert a government ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top ...

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led a chorus of outrage at Schumer, accusing him of betraying grassroots Democrats who ...

Democratic lawmakers and veterans’ groups are fuming over a provision in a stopgap federal spending bill passed by House Republicans this week that would cut a Department of Veteran Affairs fund ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats ...

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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he will vote to keep the federal government open, bailing on his party’s kamikaze mission to stick it to President […] ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would back a Republican-led stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown, 24 hours after he said he wouldn't.

U.S. lawmakers in the Senate are set to vote this afternoon on a Republican-led stopgap federal funding bill, ahead of the midnight deadline. The measure is largely expected to pass, after Senate ...

The Senate minority leader said voting for the bill would be less harmful than allowing a shutdown. Top House Democrats are ...

Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on the Senate floor Thursday evening he would support the GOP spending bill, caving to Senate Republicans’ pressure to keep […] ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) surprised Washington Thursday by announcing on the Senate floor that he would vote to advance a House Republican-drafted six-month government funding ...