Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday evening backed off his shutdown threat and said he will vote for the ...

Senate Democrats seemed to prepare themselves for the possibility of letting the government shut down as more of them came ...

Merkley urged fellow Democrats to "take on" President Trump, arguing that "the best time to take on a tyrant is as early as ...

Schumer relented one day after vowing that Senate Democrats would thwart the "partisan" measure, saying the "chaos" of a ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer signaled privately Thursday he’s ready to start the process of considering ...

After a weeks-long match of tug-of-war it seems that Senate Democrats are ready to roll over and pass a Republican-led ...

Trump repeated a campaign refrain Wednesday when he called Schumer a "Palestinian." Schumer is the highest-ranking elected ...

"As bad as passing the CR is, allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option," Schumer said.

Midterm elections tend to be unkind to the party in power. The sitting president’s party has lost House seats in every midterm but two dating back to 1950. The last time Donald Trump was president, ...

Schumer's commitment comes a day after the top Senate Democrat said “Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate.” ...

Many Democrats are agitating for their party’s senators to block the measure in defiance of President Trump, but the leader said doing so would prompt a shutdown that would only empower Mr. Trump.