Chuck Schumer was mocked by the late-night hosts over the last week for his various attempts to counter President Donald ...

The Senate minority leader had initially said he would not lean on his colleagues to reflexively oppose every nominee, but ...

“We’ve got to make things hotter,” acknowledged Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), adding that the furor in the party will ...

Schumer failed to pass the legislation through the Senate last Congress, despite assurances to Jewish communal leaders ...

U.S. aid workers around the world scrambled Wednesday to pack up households or pull children from school after the Trump ...

Democrats are fighting to energize their party's growing resistance to President Trump and his chief lieutenant, Elon Musk ...

While Democrats say Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has illegally forced its way into USAID and the Treasury Department, Republicans have framed the moves as a White House effort to ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. The House was in recess this week. Both it and the Senate are scheduled for legislative ...

Here is how New York’s senators voted on select issues during the legislative week ending Jan. 31, as reported by Targeted ...

Senate Democrats announced they would coordinate with blue state governors to fight back against Trump's federal funding ...

Donald Trump put a temporary pause on federal grants and halted foreign aid, among a slew of other efforts, to cut down on ...