The Senate has swiftly approved legislation that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact.

The Senate on Friday passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline.

Washington, D.C., which has often had a tenuous peace with the federal government when Republicans controlled Congress and ...

Schumer’s comments have provoked strong reactions from across the Democratic Party. Schumer’s comments Friday “As I announced ...

Democrats were confronted with two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believe gives President Donald Trump vast ...

Washington averted a government shutdown after an up-and-down week saw House Republicans offering a united front and ...

Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington.

The Senate approved a separate bill that allows D.C. to continue operating under its current budget, which seemed on track to ...

The House-passed spending bill would cut the Washington, D.C., government's 2025 budget by 16% — cuts local officials have described as "potentially devastating." ...

The slashing of the budget alarmed D.C. city officials, many of whom have been making pilgrimages to Capitol Hill in recent ...

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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said Democrats will stand in the way of efforts to pass a Republican-led budget ...