Republicans need help to pass a budget to keep the government running, but Democrats can’t overplay their hand.

Senate Democrats are split over how to push back against President Trump’s attempts to slash the U.S. Agency for ...

As Democrats ponder how best to position themselves for a looming spending confrontation, they are finding novel ways to put ...

House Democrats are vowing to play hardball in the partisan battle over government spending, driving to extract steep ...

A group of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of ...

Two Democratic senators from New Jersey, Cory Booker and Andy Kim, said Democrats should not vote for a spending package that ...

Democrats have been powerless as they’ve watched President Donald Trump systematically move to dismantle federal agencies and ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries last week indicated Democrats would consider using the threat of government shutdown to ...

Many exasperated Democrats, even some from battleground House districts, insist a shutdown shouldn’t be off the table if Republicans can’t put up the votes themselves. But Schumer and other ...

Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said in January 2024 that “Democrats are in lockstep that we need to avoid a government shutdown, which would be a disaster for ...

CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston commented on some congressional Democrats considering a partial shutdown to protest President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Schumer's stance is at odds with demands from progressive activists, who have been urging Democrats to block all business in ...