Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities ...

The party’s split over supporting a spending extension to avert a lapse in government funding boiled down to a practical ...

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...

The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine ...

A government shutdown was averted just hours before the Friday 11:59 p.m. deadline after enough Democrats, including Senate ...

Privately, many Senate Democrats conceded that their leader was doing his job by protecting his members from a tough vote and ...

The Senate voted on a key procedural motion regarding the House-passed stopgap spending bill on Friday. If a measure is not ...

The measure had a pathway for passage following the cloture vote on the bill, which passed on a near-partisan basis in the ...

Democrats were confronted with two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believe gives President Donald Trump vast ...

In helping averti a shutdown, Chuck Schumer has ignited a rebellion within his own party, writes Philip Elliott in The D.C.