The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to ...

Like any home or business, the federal government must pay its bills: Congress has little time to prevent a government ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led ...

Government shutdown deadlines — and even full-on shutdowns — aren’t new for Washington, but this time, with federal funding ...

Several Senate Democrats have said they will not vote in favor of the current spending bill, raising the chances of a ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, N.Y.) spoke from the Senate floor a day after he said Democrats were prepared to ...

As of Wednesday night, it looked like a path was emerging whereby Senate Democrats would abandon plans to filibuster the ...

The odds that the federal government will shut down Saturday morning have risen in recent days as a growing number of Senate ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about tariffs but pivoted to a looming government shutdown on Capitol Hill.

With funding set to run out at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, several more Senate Democrats remain non-committal while others publicly ...

President Donald Trump hosts NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. The leader of the 32-member transatlantic military alliance ...