Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration has finished its six-week purge of programs of the ...

Hundreds of demonstrators marched downtown while a spokeswoman for President Trump said the president had the authority to ...

Senate Democrats are digging in for a fight on a House-passed stopgap funding measure that is needed by Friday night to avoid a partial government shutdown. After a closed-door caucus lunch ...

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

Senate Democrats say they will not vote for the House-passed six-month government funding package, which would boost defense spending and cut nondefense programs, unless they first get a vote on a ...

Several Senate Democrats joined almost every Republican to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer, 67-32, as Labor secretary on Monday. Chavez-DeRemer, a former one-term Republican House member from Oregon ...

On March 13, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted to advance Makary’s nomination to the full Senate. It is likely that he will be approved because he received ...

While the CR is bad, Schumer said from the Senate floor, a shutdown would be “much, much worse.” He pledged to keep fighting President Trump and Elon Musk, a fairly empty promise as ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that most Democrats in the upper chamber will not support a House Republican-passed bill to fund the federal government through the end of ...

The top House Democrats are pressing their fellow party members in the Senate to kill the Republicans’ spending bill when it reaches the upper chamber, saying the proposal will hurt Americans ar ...