The president has spent his first months in office freezing out Democrats, who have in turn opposed him routinely. Now they need each other to keep the government open.

Across the country, candidates have distanced themselves from their Senate leader amid a growing appetite for newer leaders waging aggressive fights against Trump.

GOP and Democratic leaders are still at an impasse on a government funding extension with the Sept. 30 deadline approaching, risking partial shutdown of the federal government.

Schumer said reaching a deal “depends on the Republicans.”

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's attempt to force a Senate vote to compel the Department of Justice to release the Jeffrey Epstein files turned out to be a very short lived one on Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, Schumer took a rare procedural step to ...