Congress is moving head-first toward a government shutdown after the Senate voted down a pair of stopgap spending bills, ...

As Congress inches closer toward a government shutdown at the end of this month, party leaders are entering a messaging ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new ...

Dem Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday refused to rule out caving to President Trump’s demand for a “clean” ...

Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say Washington is headed for a government shutdown next week unless ...

The Senate must pass a Republican-proposed short-term spending bill by Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown, amid ongoing ...

The conventional view in Washington, D.C., is that the instigators of a shutdown always lose politically but the actual ...

The Democrats are choosing a tricky path that will require discipline and focus if they are to prevail in winning the ...

Lawmakers are pointing fingers after the Senate rejected two competing bills to fund the government, increasing the risk of a shutdown. With a September 30 deadline looming, Democrats are accusing ...

And the federal government never really completely shuts down. Social Security checks will still be distributed and Medicare ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday slammed Republicans’ “totally partisan” funding bill and reiterated his push to meet with President Trump as “the only way” to avoid a ...

I’d love to meet with them, but I don’t think it’s going to have any impact,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on ...