Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said the current fight over a Republican spending bill was the “best time” for Democrats to take on President Trump, coming less than two months into his ...

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 ...

Longtime Tucson Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva died this morning at age 77. He had been fighting lung cancer for about a year.

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

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

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