Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took up consideration of a measure in 2022 to shift to a watered-down “talking ...

Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said he would vote to end the filibuster, indicating sufficient support among ...

House Republicans this week passed a government funding bill 217-213 without assistance from Democrats, losing only one vote from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said Democrats will stand in the way of efforts to pass a Republican-led budget ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday evening backed off his shutdown threat and said he will vote for the ...

Schumer is under pressure to unite Senate Democrats as his party agonizes over whether to trigger a government shutdown in ...

The government runs out of funding Friday at midnight, leaving Democrats to decide whether to help Republicans pass a bill to avoid a shutdown or block the bill and be blamed for triggering one.

Approval of the bill sent it to the Senate, where Republicans need the cooperation of several Democrats to move it past a ...

Many Senate Democrats are digging in their heels against a stopgap bill to fund the government. But with a shutdown looming, their chances of scuttling it appear to be diminishing.

American politics has ended, at least temporarily. The out-party has to do something to try to reverse that, no? Even if that something risks making it toxic to swing voters.

President Trump said Thursday that a government shutdown could cause “very, very high taxes” and said it would be the ...

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