Congressional leaders intensified rhetoric on Wednesday over the impending government shutdown, with just two days remaining ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said that there is not enough Democratic support in the Senate to advance ...

Two days out from a government shutdown, Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats find themselves in a serious jam. But some of them are starting to hint at how they might get out of it. Publicly, the ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that most Democrats in the upper chamber will not support a House Republican-passed bill to fund the federal government through the end of ...

The jab precedes the Senate vote on the federal budget passed in the House. Seven Democrats will need to help pass it to avoid a government shutdown.

Chuck Schumer implied Wednesday that Democrats won't provide the votes to pass the GOP spending bill, but key Senators are still wavering.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans lack the votes in the upper chamber to pass their plan to avert ...

Six Democrats need to vote for the bill, assuming there are no additional Republican defections, in order for it to pass the ...

With a shutdown deadline approaching, Democrats want a continuing resolution to extend government funding through April 11.

Senate Democrats are staking out their positions on a bill to temporarily fund the government, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which would avert a federal shutdown.

The measure’s fate is uncertain in the Senate, where several Democrats will be needed to cross the 60-vote threshold for it to pass.