The Senate passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline Friday, ...

WASHINGTON - The United States averted a government shutdown with hours to spare Friday as lawmakers already reeling from President Donald Trump's radical federal spending cuts voted to keep the ...

"We become irrelevant if we don't use our power on cloture to demand that we have a seat at the table," one Senate Democrat ...

President Trump has taken a blowtorch to our country and wielded chaos like a weapon. Most Republicans in Congress, meanwhile ...

Senator Chuck Schumer faced backlash from House Democrats, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for supporting a GOP-backed ...

Cortez, have erupted over Chuck Schumer's decision to advance a Republican spending bill backed by President Donald Trump.

Johnson is often thought of as the accidental speaker. And it’s true that he was pulled out of quasi-obscurity after the caucus took down his predecessor Kevin McCarthy just 17 months ago. At the time ...

N.Y., left, walks with Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., as Senate Democrats gather behind closed doors to mount a last-ditch ...

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

The US Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down ...