The Democratic grappling reflects a larger question confronting the party: When to fight and when to fall in line?

After meeting with his conference, the Senate minority leader said "Republicans do not have the votes" to advance the ...

The House passed a measure to keep the government funded, but the shutdown threat is still present as the bill moves to the ...

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

House Republicans passed a stopgap bill to keep government funding at current levels until September. Now the measure heads ...

House Republicans passed a bill to fund the government, but only after the Trump administration said it would ignore it and ...

Health care: Furloughed federal workers will maintain their coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program ...

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

In the case of a government shutdown, those workers are put on leave because there isn't money budgeted for their job. The ...

So while we watch the process play out in Washington, D.C. – at the time of writing, a spending bill was heading to the U.S. Senate after being passed by the House – we have gathered a few essential ...

Approval of the bill sent it to the Senate, where Republicans need the cooperation of several Democrats to move it past a ...

By design, budget reconciliation mostly addresses the parts of federal spending that are not part of the appropriations ...