Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate turns to a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown and Trump's pick to ...

N.Y., said Wednesday that Democrats would reject a government funding bill that Republicans wrote and passed through the ...

Senate Democrats say they are prepared to vote against the Republicans’ bill if lawmakers do not strike a deal by Friday ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending ...

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

Senate Democrats are staring down a major dilemma as they agonize over how to handle the GOP’s stopgap spending bill in the ...

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

Trump needs Senate Democrats’ votes, but they are still weighing whether to use this rare point of leverage and risk taking ...

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

Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the federal government rather than support a House-approved budget resolution to ...