Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said that there is not enough Democratic support in the Senate to advance the spending bill.

As the junior senator from Oklahoma, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), 47, has amassed an unusual level of clout in a chamber that values seniority. The former MMA fighter and father ...

N.Y., said Wednesday that Democrats would reject a government funding bill that Republicans wrote and passed through the ...

Chuck Schumer is hoping Democrats can get an amendment vote that would ease the way for his members to agree to a GOP-led ...

Shutdown drama jams Senate Democrats  Trade war, the sequel  U.S. negotiators heading to Russia   Measles cases multiply  ...

I would like to believe that we all agree that people should have adequate housing, and we do not currently have adequate housing in the state of Connecticut,” said Rep. Eleni Kavros ...

The vice chiefs of each military branch said Wednesday that if they don't get additional funding, they at least need the ...

The bill "will lead to stunningly better outcomes for a number of our 775,000 school children with disabilities," the ...

Senate Democrats say privately that they will not allow the government to shut down on Saturday, despite growing pressure from activists and liberal lawmakers who want them to kill a GOP-crafted ...

Republicans would rather let an unchecked billionaire and the president seize taxpayer funds intended for families and ...

Worries about a possible U.S. government shutdown are weighing on risk appetite, erasing the improved sentiment from Wednesday's weaker-than-expected U.S. inflation data, Deutsche Bank Research said ...

U.S. stock index futures declined on Thursday as investors closely monitored a stopgap government funding bill amid ...