Just hours before a shutdown was set to start, Congress passed a bill to keep the government funded for the next six months. Republicans averted the shutdown with the help of a key Democrat.

While Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King voted for the spending measure to avoid a shutdown, it eliminates millions of ...

The Senate passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline Friday, ...

The Democratic Party was fracturing Friday as a torrent of frustration and anger was unleashed at Senate Democrats, led by ...

A familiar scene has played out over and over in the U.S. House: Republicans, unable to approve federal funding legislation ...

President Donald Trump forges ahead with his efforts to remake the federal government after the Senate passed a stopgap bill ...

The spending measure, which passed the House earlier in the week, was presented to the Senate as a take-it-or-leave-it ...

The whiplash from the shut-it-down to keep-it-alive posturing only fed the contempt that many Democrats were already ...

President Trump has taken a blowtorch to our country and wielded chaos like a weapon. Most Republicans in Congress, meanwhile ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. was widely criticized for surrendering to President Donald Trump on the ...

The Senate finds itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare ...

Senate Democrats were grim Friday as they left Washington after a brutal 10-week stretch that consistently showed the limits ...