Ron Johnson's reversal came just after President Trump called on Senate Republicans to end the filibuster as a way to end the government shutdown ...

• Impasse extended: The government shutdown will extend into next week, as the Senate leaves town for the weekend without a deal to reopen the government. The Federal Aviation Administration has ...

Sen. Jon Ossoff (Ga.), the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in the Senate, and his home-state colleague, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), voted Thursday for a Republican bill to pay essential federal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday rejected dueling partisan bills to pay federal workers during the government shutdown, with both Republicans and Democrats deflecting blame as many employees ...

The Senate has failed to advance a pair of competing measures to pay at least some federal employees during the government shutdown, a day before more than a million workers are set to miss a paycheck ...

Dueling bills to pay workers The Republican bill by Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin would pay "excepted" workers who still have to come to work during the current government shutdown and any future ...

Democrats blocked a Republican-led attempt to provide essential government workers with paychecks amid an ongoing, 23-day shutdown, calling the bill overly selective and incomplete. That bill, ...