Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he will act later in the day to advance a bipartisan ...

The U.S. Senate will prepare temporary spending legislation that would avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the ...

The Senate will advance a bipartisan stopgap government funding bill on Thursday after efforts to pass a similar measure in ...

It ran from Dec. 22, 2018 to Jan. 25, 2019, during the Trump administration. At 34 days, it was the longest government ...

The deadline for a potential government shutdown is September 30 if lawmakers fail to agree on a budget. However, the chance ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has taken steps that will give the Senate the option to set up a vote next week on a ...

Less than two weeks from a government shutdown and less than 50 days from the election, leaders from both parties say a ...

Congress has 12 days left to approve a short-term government funding bill before the shutdown deadline, though leaders in the ...

The U.S. Senate is working on temporary spending legislation to avert a partial government shutdown by the end of the month.

"We cannot have a government shutdown," Mitch McConnell, said. "It would be politically beyond stupid for us to do that right ...

The legislation, which would fund the government for about six months and require proof of citizenship to register to vote, fell short.