The bill was passed just hours before a midnight deadline to avoid a lapse in funding, which would have shut down the ...

President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September. His signature ...

"I have not seen such uniting anger across the party in a long, long time," Charlotte Clymer, the Democrat behind the ...

Senate Democrats’ decision to allow Republicans to pass a spending bill will avert a short-term shutdown, but it will also ...

Updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate confirmation ...

A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown has narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the way for passage as a midnight deadline looms. Ten Democrats joined with ...

President Trump praised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for saying he would back the GOP spending bill to avert a ...

The U.S. Senate advanced a spending bill that would fund the government through the end of September, a step to avoid a ...

The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through September, avoiding a government shutdown only hours before funding ...

President Trump has increased economic volatility and uncertainty, which could well tip the nation into a recession, veteran Washington journalist Carl P. Leubsdorf writes.

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities ...

The Senate is giving final approval to a bill that would result in more prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers.