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.

The House passed a measure to keep the government funded, but the shutdown threat is still present as the bill moves to the ...

Chuck Schumer implied Senate Democrats won't offer enough votes to pass the GOP spending bill, but key Senators are still wavering.

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

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

Senate Democrats are split on backing a bill to avoid a government shutdown. New today: The GOP needs eight Democratic ...

The Republicans who control Congress and the White House are governing at lightning speed — over the dismantling of the very ...

Democrats are facing just such an impossible choice right now, ahead of a potential government shutdown this weekend. And ...

Senate Democrats are staking out their positions on a bill to temporarily fund the government, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which would avert a federal shutdown.

Ohio Democratic Representatives Shontel Brown and Emilia Sykes were among those who opposed the bill, arguing it reduces ...

So while we watch the process play out in Washington, D.C. – at the time of writing, a spending bill was heading to the U.S.