One crisis looks to be avoided as a midnight deadline looms to keep the government funded amid economic uncertainty and a ...

Washington is now fully set to avert a government shutdown after an up and down week that saw House Republicans offering a ...

Ten Democrats joined with most Republicans to set up a final vote on the six-month spending measure hours out from the shutdown deadline.

A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the way ...

Some Senate Democrats, including Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, have alternatively pushed for a four-week stopgap ...

Enough Senate Democrats put their disdain for President Trump aside and voted Friday to end a filibuster of a Republican ...

In helping averti a shutdown, Chuck Schumer has ignited a rebellion within his own party, writes Philip Elliott in The D.C.

I n a dramatic break with much of their party, ten Senate Democrats voted alongside Republicans on Friday to pass a six-month ...

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate ...

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday looked set to advance a bill that would prevent a partial government ...