Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top ...

The party’s Senate leader said the GOP measure is better than enduring a shutdown, ahead of this weekend’s deadline.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and House Democratic leadership are not changing their stance on the GOP-led ...

Schumer and Gillibrand together supported a dozen of the Long Island congressmen’s requests and cosponsored two of them, and ...

Schumer's reported support suggests that enough Senate Democrats will join Republicans to move the House-passed bill forward.

Schumer relented one day after he vowed Senate Democrats would thwart the "partisan" measure, saying the "chaos" of a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing ...

"As bad as passing the CR is, allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse ...

The party had been torn between pushing back against President Trump and triggering a shutdown with unknown consequences.

A Trump-backed bill to avert a government shutdown will provide hundreds of millions of dollars to help ICE arrest and detain ...