Senate Majority Leader John Thune said talks with centrist Democrats have increased and he’s hopeful they could lead eventually to a breakthrough to end the government shutdown.

The plan to fund SNAP amid the federal government shutdown faces an uncertain path in a politically divided Michigan ...

Senate Democrats are taking a close look at a Republican proposal to pay all federal employees — including essential and ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) will speak with reporters Wednesday morning as the government shutdown ...

Democrats and Republicans continue to play the blame game as the government shutdown hits day 29. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), ...

For the 12th time, Senate Democrats blocked the Republican Party's government funding legislation this week without a single ...

Significant milestones over the next few weeks could shuffle the status quo. For now, both sides remain dug in as the closure ...

Democratic and Republican strategists and pollsters agree that the government shutdown, which will hit the 30-day mark this ...

Congressional Democrats are marching in lockstep into the fourth week of a government shutdown, even as lawmakers brace for what could be the most painful point yet — a cutoff in federal food aid for ...

Senate Democrats are resisting calls from the nation’s largest union representing federal workers — a longtime political ally ...

Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government Employees to pass a funding extension in an attempt ...

Fed chair Jerome Powell is likely to face questions during his news conference about the economic impact of the ongoing ...