Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Monday that he is “optimistic” lawmakers can strike a deal to reopen the ...

A scrap is emerging among Republicans on Capitol Hill over how long a stopgap spending bill should last as part of a deal to end a record-setting government shutdown. Republicans have been ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate will vote on full-year funding bills for the US military, veterans affairs and food stamp benefits, among other spending items, in the latest bid by Republicans to lure ...

The Senate majority leader is unwilling to pursue the “nuclear option” to blow past a Democratic filibuster and reopen the ...

Senate Republicans will keep members in Washington through the weekend pending a possible deal with Democrats to end what’s ...

A growing rift within the Republican Party has emerged over how long a stopgap spending bill should last to end the ongoing ...

About a dozen Democratic senators now believe it's time to reopen the government. But getting to a resolution could take days ...

The president has sharpened his calls for Senate Republicans to kill the longstanding legislative maneuver, saying the GOP’s ...

N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, calling for a ...

Senate Democrats say they are working through "differences of opinions" as they seek an off-ramp to the month-old partial government shutdown.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is discussing a deal to reopen the government as well as an agreement to vote on a separate bill to extend certain Obamacare subsidies.

President Donald Trump is demanding the Senate to “go nuclear” and scrap the filibuster rule so Republicans could ...