Republicans and the Trump administration are bracing for a lengthy government shutdown, taking steps to alleviate any political pain that might boomerang on them while seeking to make life difficult for Democrats.

The White House is taking steps to redistribute funds to ensure the military gets paychecks during the shutdown.

Doing so in this way takes care of a constituency important to the GOP and Trump, but it deprives Democrats of a vote to fund the military.

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Senate Republicans are ramping up pressure on Democrats over the shutdown, taking away a vote on a Democratic alternative to open the government and blaming the party for worsening hardships for military families.

In a now familiar scene Tuesday night, the Senate rejected a House GOP measure to open the government by a 49-45 vote. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) were the only members of the Democratic caucus who voted to advance it. Sen. J...

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The Senate rejected a bill to reopen the government for the eighth time Tuesday, ensuring the shutdown will enter its third week with lawmakers nowhere close to finding a resolution.

Senators voted 49-45 on the GOP's House-passed continuing resolution, which would fund the government through late November. It needed 60 votes to advance. 

Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) voted with Republicans, as they have for nearly two wee...

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has set up one vote Tuesday afternoon to reopen the government, giving Democrats only the opportunity to vote for or against a House-passed continuing resolution that has failed repeatedly on the Senate floor.

The Senate is scheduled to convene at 3 p.m. and the vote is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m.

It will be the eighth time senators consider the House measure, which failed to advance on seven previous votes.

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