Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans lack the votes in the upper chamber to pass their plan to avert ...

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.

Senate Democrats say privately that they will not allow the government to shut down on Saturday, despite growing pressure from activists and liberal lawmakers who want them to kill a GOP-crafted ...

Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the federal government rather than support a House-approved budget resolution to ...

On this special episode of "Uncanny Valley," we unpack Elon Musk's desire for a government shutdown that could become ...

Trump needs Senate Democrats’ votes, but they are still weighing whether to use this rare point of leverage and risk taking ...

Senate Democrats are staring down a major dilemma as they agonize over how to handle the GOP’s stopgap spending bill in the ...

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

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

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

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

Retirees, in particular, may feel the impact of a shutdown. Here's what to know about your monthly Social Security payments and other ways a government shutdown can affect your finances.