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

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

Democrats have long found the flip phone Chuck Schumer still insists on using as an endearing quirk that illustrates how ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday that he’d not yet decided how to vote. But he sees downsides to a shutdown that go beyond inflicting even more ...

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

Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats are ready to seize on the first big leverage point of President Donald Trump’s second ...