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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The House passed a funding bill, 217-213, on Tuesday night, mostly along party lines. The legislation must pass the Senate ...

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

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) defied House Democratic leadership Tuesday when he voted for the GOP’s bill to avert a government ...