In interview, the Senate minority leader said intraparty critics underestimated the dangers of a funding lapse.

The Democratic Party appears fractured as a torrent of frustration and anger has been unleashed on Senate Democratic Leader ...

The US Senate appeared closer Friday to avoiding an economically damaging government funding shutdown after the Democrats' ...

Privately, many Senate Democrats conceded that their leader was doing his job by protecting his members from a tough vote and ...

The Senate has passed a six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to ...

The Senate on Friday approved a House GOP-crafted spending bill hours before the shutdown deadline, capping off the first funding fight of President Trump’s second term — a saga that ripped apart ...

An afternoon vote was expected to clear the way for a Republican-written bill to keep government funding flowing past ...

A majority of Democrats signaled that they would oppose the CR and seethed at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s decision ...

The surrender by Senate Democrats on the spending bill needed to avoid a government shutdown turned a defeat into a debacle.

A government shutdown was set to happen at the end of the day Friday. As the clock ticked, Senate Democrats were in an unenviable position. They were forced to choose between a GOP bill that ...