The six-month funding bill, which narrowly passed in the House by a 217-213 tally, needs 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. Since deficit hawk Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is opposed, it would ...

The bill passed the House despite all but one House Democrat voting against it — but Republicans will need support from at ...

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

Government shutdown looms as Democrats say they won’t back GOP spending bill - The European Commission and Canada have both ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.

President Trump has made large scale changes to the federal workforce even before receiving mass layoff plans from federal ...

Senate Democrats are staring down a major dilemma as they agonize over how to handle the GOP’s stopgap spending bill in the ...

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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday Senate GOP "do not have the votes" to pass a pending funding bill, ...

The Education Department's civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration's layoffs.

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal to fund the government, heightening the alert for a potential government ...