Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...

President Donald Trump forges ahead with his efforts to remake the federal government after the Senate passed a stopgap bill ...

Senate Democrats’ decision to allow Republicans to pass a spending bill will avert a short-term shutdown, but it will also give Republicans the power to grant President Donald Trump new leverage to ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top ...

Facing intense pressure over the threat of a shutdown in less than two days, lawmakers are racing to push through a ...

The Senate has until midnight Friday to pass a bill to keep the government open. Meantime, President Donald Trump is delivering what the White House calls a law-and-order speech on Friday at the ...

The Senate has until midnight Friday to pass a bill to keep the government open. Meantime, President Donald Trump will deliver a speech on immigration at the Justice Department. Follow for live news ...

Ten Senate Democrats joined Republicans this afternoon to advance the government funding bill in a key procedural step, as Congress faces a midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown. Follow for ...

Washington Democrats finally have a first point of leverage against President Donald Trump — but it comes with a dilemma that could leave them looking even more hapless than they have so far in his ...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday succeeded in a high-stakes House vote to pass President Donald Trump’s plan to fund the ...

Earlier, several Senate Democrats told CNN they expect a government shutdown to be averted. • Federal workers: A federal judge ordered half a dozen federal agencies to “immediately ...

Donald Trump just convinced dozens of Republican hardliners to do what House speakers from John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy ...