President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to eliminate seven federal agencies that focus on media, libraries, ...

The Senate passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline Friday, ...

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at ...

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

The Senate has passed a Republican-led six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp ...

President Trump praised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for saying he would back the GOP spending bill to avert a ...

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

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of the federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine ...