The message from the trump administration: we are just fine to go it alone, should a shutdown of the federal government occur next week.

Democratic congressional leaders are dismissing a threat from the White House budget office to fire masses of federal workers during a government shutdown, saying they will not be intimidated to ...

The government runs out of funding as the clock strikes midnight from Tuesday, Sept. 30 to Wednesday, Oct. 1. To avoid that shutdown, Congress must pass either a short-term funding bill, called a ...

The chilly relationship is a rather new development. Schumer and Thune have served together in the Senate for more than 20 years, including overlapping on the powerful Finance Committee. Even into the ...

FILE - Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined at left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, speaks to reporters following closed-door strategy meetings, at the Capitol in Washington, ...

Republicans leave Washington, D.C., without funding deal as President Donald Trump calls potential government shutdown likely ...

Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say Washington is headed for a government shutdown next week unless President Trump intervenes to cut a deal with Democrats. Senate Majority ...

Members of Congress are taking steps to tighten their own security as the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has ...

The Senate action came just hours after the House sent them the short-term funding bill. The Senate voted to block that ...

It’s been more than nine months since John Thune officially became majority leader of the United States Senate.  The longtime ...

The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees. Republicans acted for the first time under new rules to clear a backlog of executive branch positions that had been delayed by ...

U.S. senators are expected to vote Friday on competing stopgap bills that both aim to temporarily fund the government past ...