The plan would avert a government shutdown but give Donald Trump and Elon Musk more power over spending, sparking fierce ...

Democrats are raging against Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer hours before a shutdown deadline.{beacon} Evening Report ...

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

Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a ...

Presented by National Council on Aging{beacon} Evening Report TRUMP FIRST 100 DAYS© Greg NashSenate Dems under pressure over ...

New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s decision to not seek reelection marks the latest bit of tough luck for Senate ...

Democrats have a rare moment of leverage in Washington after losing the November election and watching helplessly as Elon ...

House Republicans passed legislation to keep the US government open past a Saturday shutdown deadline, daring moderate ...

Relatives and colleagues remember former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming as a figure who was "gifted in crossing party lines." ...

Schumer has defended his vote to keep the government running as the best of two bad choices aimed at not ceding Trump and ...

House Republicans advanced a stopgap bill Tuesday to fund the government until October, putting moderate Senate Democrats in ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said his party would block a Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown ...