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

Democrat hypocrisy on this issue goes back for decades. During the funeral of Rep. John Lewis , Obama did indeed label the ...

Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the federal government rather than support a House-approved budget resolution to avert a pending government shutdown at the end of the day Friday.

The vote came at a steep price for Democrats, fracturing the party with calls to oust Schumer as leader and primary Democrats ...

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at ...

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities ...

Schumer understood things could get much worse for federal employees and congressional Democrats during a shutdown.

called the two choices Democrats faced — supporting the House GOP bill or driving the government into a shutdown — “full of despair.” A Senate Democratic aide, granted anonymity to discuss ...

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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to speak with reporters as Republicans work to pass an interim spending ...