“I think people need to understand that this is a shutdown because democrats are making a bunch of demands for a bunch of new spending and those kinds of things,” said Senator John Hoeven. With a ...

Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits ...

“It’s really the Trump shutdown,” Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN’s John Berman. “Republicans thought that they could barrel us into a shutdown because they didn’t want to ...

Republicans and Democrats blame each other for the funding gap, and there is little sign either side is willing to compromise ...

Follow news on the government shutdown after Congress fails to pass a federal budget plan. Trump has threatened mass layoffs ...

The Senate on Wednesday was set to take up another series of votes on legislation to fund the government, after a shutdown ...

The shutdown immediately suspended salaries for hundreds of thousands of government employees and put non-essential services ...

Get live updates from Capitol Hill after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement to avert a government shut down.

A vote to end the government shutdown failed as Senate Democrats demand funding for health care subsidies that President Donald Trump and Republicans refuse to provide.

The government shutdown has continued as the White House threatens “imminent” layoffs of federal workers and no votes on ...

The U.S. government is under its first federal government shutdown in almost seven years as Senate Democrats have voted down ...

In the Senate, Democrats are withholding support for a measure to keep the government funded at current levels unless ...