A vote to end debate on the House-passed stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown will take place on Friday ...

The party’s Senate leader said the GOP measure is better than enduring a shutdown, ahead of this weekend’s deadline.

The Senate is preparing to give final approval to a bill that could result in harsher prison sentences for fentanyl ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government ...

Schumer relented one day after he vowed Senate Democrats would thwart the "partisan" measure, saying the "chaos" of a ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending ...

Schumer's reported support suggests that enough Senate Democrats will join Republicans to move the House-passed bill forward.

Many Democrats had agitated for the party to hang together and block the measure in defiance of President Trump, but the ...

Top U.S. Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer on Thursday said he would vote to advance a Republican stopgap funding bill, signaling ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he’s ready to ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, N.Y.) spoke from the Senate floor a day after he said Democrats were prepared to ...