Senate Democrats are split on backing a bill to avoid a government shutdown. New today: The GOP needs eight Democratic ...

House Republicans passed a stopgap bill to keep government funding at current levels until September. Now the measure heads ...

The House passed a measure to keep the government funded, but the shutdown threat is still present as the bill moves to the ...

The vote sets up a showdown in the Senate over a bill Democrats criticize as giving more power to President Trump and Elon ...

Following the Trump administration's decision to apply universal steel and aluminum tariffs, Canada has announced retaliatory ...

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair ...

Senate Democrats say they are prepared to vote against the Republicans’ bill if lawmakers do not strike a deal by Friday ...

So while we watch the process play out in Washington, D.C. – at the time of writing, a spending bill was heading to the U.S.

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending ...

Maryland and Virginia senators have said they would oppose the spending bill to keep the government open. Republicans need 60 ...

Washington Democrats finally have a first point of leverage against President Donald Trump — but it comes with a dilemma that ...