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

The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine ...

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

Senate Democrats decided not to block a GOP-led funding bill, which many have said fails to do enough to rein in Elon Musk's ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to eliminate seven federal agencies that focus on media, libraries, ...

The Senate passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline Friday, ...

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

Just hours before a shutdown was set to start, Congress passed a bill to keep the government funded for the next six months.

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at ...

The Senate voted this afternoon to pass a Republican-written spending bill and avert a government shutdown. In a crucial ...