Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate ...

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer voted alongside all Republicans in a key procedural vote to advance House Republicans’ ...

Congress has approved a stopgap bill to fund the federal government through September 30 and avert a shutdown ahead of a ...

The measure had a pathway for passage following the cloture vote on the bill, which passed on a near-partisan basis in the ...

The Senate passed a bill to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year and avoid a shutdown. The ...

Democrats were split on the vote, with some wanting to use it as leverage to fight Department of Government Efficiency cuts.

Democrats voted to end the filibuster, paving the way for Republicans to pass their funding bill before the shutdown deadline ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top ...

Dozens of House Democrats sent a letter to Schumer on Friday to express their “strong opposition” to his plan to back the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led ...