Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...

Democrats faced two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believe gives the president vast discretion on spending ...

Schumer and Gillibrand together supported a dozen of the Long Island congressmen’s requests and cosponsored two of them, and ...

City officials say a Republican bill to fund the federal government will force the city to lay off all manner of personnel, ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending ...

The Senate passed the bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the ...

D.C.’s financial fate was tied into a House stopgap funding bill that didn't include a provision to prevent cuts to the ...

The government funding bill that’s headed to the White House limits Washington, D.C.’s ability to fully use its local tax ...