Live updates and the latest news as U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum kick in and the Senate turns to a government funding ...

The six-month funding bill, which narrowly passed in the House by a 217-213 tally, needs 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. Since deficit hawk Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is opposed, it would ...

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

Senate Democrats announced their opposition to a Republican stopgap funding bill, increasing the risk of a government shutdown by the end of the week.

Senate Democrats say they are prepared to vote to reject the Republicans’ government funding bill, threatening a shutdown if ...

The House passed legislation Tuesday to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September, ...

Despite pressure from the left to hold firm, some Democratic senators seem headed for an off-ramp.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has accomplished the seemingly unexpected, keeping his Republican majority in line to fund the ...

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

In his latest attack on education and transgender rights, Trump is punishing the University of Maine System, the state’s ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that Democrats won't provide enough support to pass a government funding bill that Republicans wrote and passed through the ...

Lawmakers have broadly expressed concerns that the more-than $250 million school funding boost per year would be unaffordable ...