Chuck Schumer kills push from Democrats for government shutdown - Senate Democrats are betting voters will know who to blame ...

The bill, passed by House earlier this week, will likely need eight Senate Democrats to vote in favor to clear the 60 vote ...

The party had been torn between pushing back against President Trump and triggering a shutdown with unknown consequences.

Veteran Rep. Raúl Grijalva, one of Arizona's longest-serving members of Congress, died on Thursday, ending his decades-long ...

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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday evening that he would help advance a House GOP spending bill that would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year—a strong ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday evening backed off his shutdown threat and said he will vote for the ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer had two choices as the clock ticked down to the government funding deadline: drop his ...

As of Wednesday night, it looked like a path was emerging whereby Senate Democrats would abandon plans to filibuster the ...

Democrats have said they will not vote for a Republican spending patch that funds the government through September, arguing ...

The reversal comes just one day after Schumer warned Republicans they did not have the votes needed to advance the bill. ...