While Democrats broadly agree on a core set of economic and social issues, they are divided over the best way to respond to ...

Senate leader’s willingness to avert a government shutdown is sound public policy so why did it upset so many of his fellow ...

Congressional appropriators, the lawmakers with jurisdiction over government funding, were once among the most powerful figures on Capitol Hill — tough and often-revered negotiators who struck ...

Senate Republicans aren’t planning to be a rubber stamp for President Trump’s sweeping operation to shrink the federal ...

Leaders in the upper chamber of Congress occasionally have to take a political beating to protect their members in tough ...

The Senate Democratic leader said the country hasn't reached a constitutional crisis. For some Democrats, his denial shows he ...

Chuck Schumer continues to face backlash from some members of his party after he voted in favor of a spending bill that ...

Peering through his trademark glasses, the Senate minority leader sat through criticism from prominent Democrats who accused ...

Senator Chuck Schumer and several other Democratic senators voted to advance a Republican spending bill to keep the ...

Schumer claimed that Republicans set Democrats a government shutdown “trap” as he defended backing the short-term spending ...