Over $15 billion in earmarked funding won't be spent this year. It's vulnerable Republicans and their districts who stand to ...

Comedian Stephen Colbert pressed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on his show Thursday over his support for a ...

Arizona projects was eliminated as part of the government shutdown resolution that passed Congress earlier this month. The money is part of billions of federal dollars for local projects that won’t be ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand made the tough decision to break with Democrats and pass ...

N.Y., said he would not resign and defended his vote in favor of the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said a government shutdown would have been “10 or 20 times worse” ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he won't resign his post, despite pressure from some in his party after he voted ...

Schumer said that while the Continuing Resolution was “certainly bad,” a shutdown “would be 15 or 20 times worse.” ...

Stephen Colbert pressed Chuck Schumer on his reasons for supporting a GOP-backed bill and whether he'll be handing them a similar win in September.

(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) The Senate passed a six-month spending bill Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President ...