WASHINGTON – It's a bad week to be a Senate Democrat. With less than 48 hours until a government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his party's members are being forced to choose ...

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at the end of the day Friday. The Senate voted 54 to 46 to pass the bill.

Congress averted a government shutdown after the Senate on Sept. 30 approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, passsing the bill 88-9.

WASHINGTON – Ten Senate Democrats joined with most of their GOP colleagues on Friday to advance a government funding bill, averting a partial shutdown of major federal services beginning at ...

Much of state government would shut down if Hobbs doesn't sign a new budget before the start of a new fiscal year on July 1.

Congress to weigh short-term funding bill to avert partial government shutdown 02:53. Washington — The Senate crossed its first hurdle Tuesday night as it seeks to pass a stopgap spending ...

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a House-passed spending bill that exposed deep rifts within the Democratic Party.

With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to ...

The Senate passed a bill to keep the federal government funded through September Friday evening, avoiding a partial shutdown that would have begun at midnight. Ten Democrats joined with all but ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans lack the votes in the upper chamber to pass their plan to avert a looming government shutdown on Friday at midnight.

In fact, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said the government would go into a partial shutdown at midnight if ...