Two Democrats in Congress said on Friday that Republicans have raised the risk of a government shutdown by insisting on including cuts made by President Donald Trump's administration in legislation to keep the government operating past a mid-March deadline.

Top Democratic negotiators on Friday accused Republicans of “walking away” from bipartisan government funding talks two weeks before the shutdown deadline. Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.) and Rep.

Senate Democrats are quietly discussing how to avoid a government shutdown by adjusting some of their demands on President Trump and Elon Musk's spending freezes and mass firings. Why it matters: A shutdown could make life even worse for federal workers,

Since the vote, the political world has erupted. Republicans are accusing vulnerable California Democrats of backing higher taxes by voting no. Democrats warned that the state’s Republicans were heartlessly cutting social programs that aid lower income people.

Democrats are rerunning the playbook that won them control of Congress in 2018, focusing on the cost of the G.O.P.’s tax cut plan for ordinary Americans, particularly when it comes to health care.

Gov. JB Pritzker, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, and other Illinois members of Congress joined staff at University of Illinois Mile Square Health Center on the Near West Side on Friday to