A vote to end debate on the House-passed stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown will take place on Friday ...

While the government did cut its outlays in February the budget deficit for the month more than doubled compared to January ...

Top U.S. Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer on Thursday said he would vote to advance a Republican stopgap funding bill, signaling ...

The House of Representatives passed a spending bill Tuesday to fund the government through the end of September and avert a ...

Since the 1950s, every effort to reduce the size and scope of government has been bulldozed by a political establishment more ...

Schumer's commitment comes a day after the top Senate Democrat said “Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate.” ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to speak with reporters as Republicans work to pass an interim spending ...

California Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff will vote “no” on the House-passed plan to keep the government running through ...

Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly of Arizona stuck with their party to oppose an 11th-hour GOP plan to fund the federal ...

This move marks a significant concession from Schumer, who reversed his stance just one day after promising that Democrats would block the GOP measure. As a result, the bill is now poised to secure ...

Democratic lawmakers and veterans’ groups are fuming over a provision in a stopgap federal spending bill passed by House Republicans this week that would cut a Department of Veteran Affairs fund ...

South Africa has entered uncharted waters following deep divisions in the coalition government over the national budget that ...