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

N.Y., said Wednesday that Democrats would reject a government funding bill that Republicans wrote and passed through the ...

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.

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

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 ...

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

Six Democrats need to vote for the bill, assuming there are no additional Republican defections, in order for it to pass the ...

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

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

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