The U.S. Senate failed to pass the House's short-term funding bill Friday and failed to pass the Democrats' responding proposal, pushing the government closer to a possible shutdown.

Republicans believe they have the political upper hand, pointing to Schumer’s own past warnings against shutdowns. “What we’re seeing today from the Minority Leader is exactly what he once condemned,” Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said on the floor before the vote. “He is holding the American people hostage.”

The Senate voted to confirm former national security adviser Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Friday, on the eve of a week of high-level meetings and debates at the U.N. General Assembly.

Facing Democratic opposition, the GOP has discarded a series of precedents and weakened minority power in order to vote through Trump's nominees and legislation.

Top Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate released a bill that seeks to bolster consumer privacy laws in the state by limiting the type of data large companies can store and collect from customers.

Sen. Chris Murphy said Senate and House Democrats are proposing legislation that they are calling the "No Political Enemies Act" to quell political violence.

NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez issued a detailed timeline of events she said led to her ouster as she testified before a Senate committee on Wednesday.