“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that ...

CNN’s Van Jones said there was a “volcanic eruption” of outrage among Democrats after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ...

To beat Trump, we need clarity of purpose, discipline and coordination," one top Democratic strategist said. "It’s clear none of that exists right now.” ...

The quotes from House Democrats since Thursday sound a lot like what readers have gotten used to from House Republicans over ...

Younger Democrats are chafing at and increasingly complaining about what they see as the feebleness of the old guard’s ...

The Senate approved a House GOP-crafted spending bill hours before the shutdown deadline Friday evening, capping off the ...

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Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) faced a similar obstacle in the form of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the former GOP leader who would never allow a liberal spending bill through the upper ...

Ashley Etienne, a former top communications strategist for ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi who has vocally ... “This is the [Mitch] McConnell thing, right?” the former House leadership aide said.

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic ...