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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

George Caldwell is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to George. On Tuesday night, forty-three Democrats in the Senate denied Republicans the votes necessary to avert a government ...

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

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