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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., gives a television interview, as the Senate works to avert a partial government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Democrats confront limits of their minority power after bruising shutdown vote

Senate Democrats were grim Friday as they left Washington after a brutal 10-week stretch that consistently showed the limits of their new minority and culminated with a deeply personal rupture over how to best counter President Donald Trump.
 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, walks with Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., as Senate Democrats gather behind closed doors to mount a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led spending bill that already passed the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer to advance GOP funding bill, unwilling to risk government shutdown as deadline nears

 
Former Congressman Dr. David Weldon speaks in The Villages, Fla., on May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington, File)

Trump administration withdraws CDC director nomination just before Senate hearing

 
A federal employee, who asked not to use their name for fears over losing their job, protests with a sign saying "Federal Employees Don't Work for Kings" during the "No Kings Day" protest on Presidents Day in Washington, in support of federal workers and against recent actions by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Feb. 17, 2025, by the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

The Latest: Schumer backs GOP funding bill, unwilling to risk government shutdown

 
Lori Chavez-DeRemer attends a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on her nomination for Secretary of Labor, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate confirms Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Trump’s labor secretary

 

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Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Energy, testifies during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing for his pending confirmation, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Senate confirms fossil fuel CEO Chris Wright as energy secretary. He vows to ‘unleash’ US resources

 
The outside of Westminster Magistrates Court is shown in London, Oct. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

London court clears way to extradite US mother accused of killing 2 of her children in Colorado

 
Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Energy is sworn-in during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing for his pending confirmation, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Key takeaways from Trump’s energy secretary pick’s confirmation hearing