The Senate passed a bill Friday that will fund the government through September and avert a shutdown. Some Democratic ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to eliminate seven federal agencies that focus on media, libraries, ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of the federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

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

The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine ...

WASHINGTON – It's a bad week to be a Senate Democrat.

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer voted alongside Republicans to advance a House GOP spending bill that would keep the ...

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

A vote to end debate on the House-passed stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown will take place on Friday ...

Democrats voted to end the filibuster, paving the way for Republicans to pass their funding bill before the shutdown deadline ...

The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through September, avoiding a government shutdown only hours before funding ...

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