Adopting the “current policy baseline,” as it’s called, could be the only way for the GOP to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts ...

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who has routinely voted against government spending bills, said what’s changed is Trump in the White ...

WASHINGTON >> U.S. Senate Democrats huddled for hours today plotting a course forward on a stopgap funding bill passed by the Republican-controlled House, with only two more days remaining before a ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday Senate GOP "do not have the votes" to pass a pending budget bill, setting ...

The proposal funds the federal government through September and avoids a government shutdown on Friday. But it's taken on ...

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

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said his party would block a Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown ...

The minority leader’s slap-dash attempt to shut down the government at this moment marks an especially sad chapter for the disappearing Democrats.

Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place as they must choose between shutting down the government or folding to ...

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair ...

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

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