The Senate voted to avoid a government shutdown less than nine hours before the deadline, leaving Democrats divided and ...

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

A government shutdown was averted just hours before the Friday 11:59 p.m. deadline after enough Democrats, including Senate ...

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

The Senate voted on a key procedural motion regarding the House-passed stopgap spending bill on Friday. If a measure is not ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending ...

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Senate Democrats decided not to block a GOP-led funding bill, which many have said fails to do enough to rein in Elon Musk's ...

House Republicans passed a stopgap bill to keep government funding at current levels until September. Now the measure heads ...

The Senate is nearing a key test vote as lawmakers work to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare.

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