Democrats in Congress are growing louder with threats to force a shutdown in March to put the brakes on President Trump’s and ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) in a letter to colleagues Monday warned of the possibility of a “Trump shutdown ...

President Donald Trump’s budget chief has sent an email to consumer protection agency employees telling them to stop working.

Sen. Chuck Schumer Monday warned that Republicans are driving the nation toward a government shutdown and vowed Democrats ...

The legal basis for the modern federal shutdown traces back to a 1980 memorandum penned for President Jimmy Carter by then-Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti. It spelled out his ...

Democrats have been powerless as they’ve watched President Donald Trump systematically move to dismantle federal agencies and ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries last week indicated Democrats would consider using the threat of government shutdown to ...

A union representing employees across dozens of federal agencies filed two lawsuits on Sunday against the acting director of ...

Two Democratic senators from New Jersey, Cory Booker and Andy Kim, said Democrats should not vote for a spending package that ...

Democrats say the Trump administration's moves to reshape the federal government without congressional input make reaching a ...

Schumer's stance is at odds with demands from progressive activists, who have been urging Democrats to block all business in ...