as Senate Democrats said Wednesday they would NOT vote for a 6-month stopgap funding bill passed by the GOP on Tuesday night.

Wonder of wonders, Republicans in Congress have escaped a government shutdown trap for a change, and they even put Senate ...

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 ...

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall (R) introduced a plan last month that would invest over $3 billion in the state's 'crumbling' infrastructure.

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

Idaho Gov. Brad Little sought to expand program providing doctors in underserved communities with $25,000 a year to repay ...

U.S. Senate Democrats were wrestling on Wednesday with how to respond to a stopgap funding bill passed by the ...

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

NBC News Senior National Political Reporter Sahil Kapur, former Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.) and Sarah Chamberlain join Meet the Press NOW to discuss how Senate Democrats might vote on a GOP funding bill ...

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 ...