A Republican-backed bill to fund the government through Nov. 21 failed for the ninth time in the Senate on Wednesday. The vote was 51-to-44, with a supermajority of 60 votes needed for passage. The shutdown started on Oct. 1.

The House passed a spending resolution to keep the government open but it's stalled in the Senate over Democratic opposition.

Get the latest Trump administration news as the government shutdown continues. House Speaker Mike Johnson said this could become the longest shutdown in U.S. history.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is putting a House-passed bill on Defense Department appropriations up for a procedural vote Wednesday afternoon. With 60 votes required to move forward, the bill will likely need at least seven Democrats to support it,

The Senate on Wednesday was set to take up another series of votes on legislation to fund the government, after a shutdown went into effect overnight. The upper chamber of Congress on Tuesday, as expected, failed to approve a GOP-led stopgap to keep the ...

The federal government remains closed Thursday as tensions flared on Capitol Hill ahead of the Senate reconvening. Here's the latest, vote time, more.

An independent senator who caucuses with Democrats said Senate Democrats are giving the White House too much power in the fight to reopen the federal government — particularly given President Donald Trump’s admitted lack of urgency about ending the shutdown.