Republicans are trying to win back political momentum in the government shutdown fight from Democrats, putting their rivals on the defensive and taking solace from polls showing Americans are ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has set up one vote Tuesday afternoon to reopen the government, giving Democrats ...

Republicans have since deployed the maneuver two other times. In 2017, Senate Republicans eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees in an effort to allow the GOP to confirm Justice Neil ...

President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Senate Republicans seek the support of five more Senate Democrats to join with three others who voted to approve a clean continuing resolution to fund the federal government. Vice ...

On the third day of the shutdown, a Republican bill to reopen the government fell short in a 54-44 Senate vote, well below ...

A group of Republican lieutenant governors drafted a letter to Senate leadership on Tuesday calling on Democrats in the Upper Chamber to pass a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown.

The Senate is scheduled to vote on Oct. 9 on competing proposals to reopen the government. Will the seventh attempt be ...

The South Carolina Republican urged Democrats to "have a rational discussion, but not with the government shut down." ...