The Department of Education announced a significant reduction in its workforce, marking the first step toward a complete shutdown of the agency.

The Trump administration had already been whittling the agency’s staff, though buyout offers and the termination of probationary employees.

Will Senate Democrats cave to Trump to prevent a government shutdown? - Analysis: Democrats have two choices – let the ...

Chuck Schumer implied Senate Democrats won't offer enough votes to pass the GOP spending bill, but key Senators are still wavering.

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair ...

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

Senate Democrats are split on backing a bill to avoid a government shutdown. New today: The GOP needs eight Democratic ...

Democrats are facing just such an impossible choice right now, ahead of a potential government shutdown this weekend. And they don’t seem to know quite what to do with it yet — for good reason.

Senate Democrats are staking out their positions on a bill to temporarily fund the government, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which would avert a federal shutdown.

Ohio Democratic Representatives Shontel Brown and Emilia Sykes were among those who opposed the bill, arguing it reduces ...

So while we watch the process play out in Washington, D.C. – at the time of writing, a spending bill was heading to the U.S.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the ball is in Russia's court now that Ukraine has agreed to a cease fire.