Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown is still “avoidable.” ...

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

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 ...

President Trump and GOP lawmakers are itching to make a potential government shutdown as painful as possible for Democrats as negotiations show few signs of progress with less than a week to go ...

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 ...

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 ...