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

The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of the federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

The party’s split over supporting a spending extension to avert a lapse in government funding boiled down to a practical ...

A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown has narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the way for passage as a midnight deadline looms. Ten Democrats joined with ...

After a 54-46 vote, the measure now heads to Trump to sign into law hours before government funding was set to lapse.

Enough Senate Democrats put their disdain for President Trump aside and voted Friday to end a filibuster of a Republican ...

After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a ...

A vote to end debate on the House-passed stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown will take place on Friday ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has managed to do the impossible: unite almost the entire left (against him).

For the second time in less than four months, a government shutdown is looming with a matter of hours until a Friday night ...

A factor behind the reportedly tense confrontation at a Cabinet meeting Thursday was the decimation of the U.S. Agency for ...

House Republicans are proposing increases to national defense spending while reducing spending on domestic programs in a ...