Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.

Senate Democrats are still not committing to helping Republicans pass a seven-month funding stopgap, edging the country ...

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate turns to a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown and Trump's pick to ...

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 ...

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

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal ...

House Republicans overcame their paper-thin majority yesterday evening and passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal ...

Approval of the bill sent it to the Senate, where Republicans need the cooperation of several Democrats to move it past a ...