Though most Senate Democrats voted Friday to block the GOP’s stopgap funding bill before the midnight deadline to fund the government, it was not enough. Minority leader Chuck Schumer and nine other ...

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities and will give Trump and his allies more leeway to dismantle the federal ...

The Senate passed a bill to keep the federal government funded through September Friday evening, avoiding a partial shutdown that would have begun at midnight. Ten Democrats joined with all but one of ...

So this long and terrible week is finally over. Chuck Schumer got what he wanted and there will be no government shutdown. We’ll never know what would have happened had it gone the other way ...

Curtis' bill would create a baseline budget that restarts each fiscal year at the prior year’s spending levels unless altered ...

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

After a nail-biter cloture vote in the U.S. Senate, a government shutdown appears unlikely as Republicans’ stopgap bill now moves to a final majority vote before the midnight deadline. Despite most ...

On Saturday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: A government shutdown has been averted. USA TODAY Economy Reporter Rachel Barber takes a closer look at what's actually going on amid economic ...

almost certainly averting a government shutdown, with multiple Senate Democrats—including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.—voting to advance the bill despite backlash from House ...

The Senate voted 54-46 to approve a stopgap spending bill known as a continuing resolution, or CR, on Friday evening, just hours before a potential government shutdown would begin. The House ...

It's likely the US government will avert a debilitating shutdown on Saturday, said Sen. Ted Cruz. "I think it's probably not going to happen. I think we're gonna see the Democrats cave," Cruz (R ...