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 ...

Funding the government is ultimately a must-pass priority for Congress. It’s also an opportunity for the minority Democrats ...

Still locked out of power in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his party are seizing on a fresh battle ...

A Republican measure to keep the government funded past Oct. 1 stalled in the Senate after clearing the House on Friday.

Also, Trump officials fought over the fate of a veteran U.S. attorney. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

The threat of a U.S. government shutdown surged on Friday, as the U.S. Senate rejected a short-term funding bill to keep ...

Democratic leaders rejected the bill, insisting the GOP must negotiate on health care and other priorities, setting up a ...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday corralled his oft-fractured House conference to pass a Republican plan to fund the government ...

U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, on Saturday ...

Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Saturday demanded that President Donald Trump meet with them to ...

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