Senate Democrats crusaded to gut the filibuster amid frustrations over slow progress in advancing former President Joe ...

A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, the state and the country,” Schumer said on the Senate floor when he ...

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

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

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.

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

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York broke with his party Thursday and lined up enough Democrats to advance a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a Friday night deadline.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans lack the votes in the upper chamber to pass their plan to avert ...

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.

Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., has voiced concern about Trump's ability to choose who is furloughed in a shutdown, telling ...

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 ...