Senate Democrats make their move in the shutdown fight: From the Politics Desk
The House’s passage of a Republican stopgap funding bill has put Senate Democrats in a bind: Either back a measure they ...
Trump-Johnson vs. Senate Democrats in Game of Shutdown Chicken
Senate Democrats have decided not to advance a partisan House-passed funding bill, venturing that Republicans will be to ...
House G.O.P. Passes Bill to Avert a Shutdown, Daring the Senate to Accept It
Approval of the bill sent it to the Senate, where Republicans need the cooperation of several Democrats to move it past a ...
Schumer says Democrats will block House funding bill, heightening the shutdown alert
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal ...
Is the US heading for a government shutdown? 5 essential reads to occupy the mind while we wait to find out
So while we watch the process play out in Washington, D.C. – at the time of writing, a spending bill was heading to the U.S. Senate after being passed by the House – we have gathered a few essential ...
Senate Democrats Balk at Funding Extension, Raising the Risk of a Shutdown
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.
Dems search for a shutdown strategy
SHAHEEN RETIRES, DEMS PERSPIRE: New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen announced this morning that she won’t seek reelection next year, opening up a seat in a perennial battleground state that ...
How Congress could vote to avert – or allow – a government shutdown
A Republican-sponsored continuing resolution to keep the government operating was approved by the House. It faces a close ...