The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of the federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

The Senate voted to advance a bill to fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown on Saturday.

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Friday afternoon that the Senate would begin voting immediately on a ...

Congress has approved a stopgap bill to fund the federal government through September 30 and avert a shutdown ahead of a ...

Democrats were split on the vote, with some wanting to use it as leverage to fight Department of Government Efficiency cuts.

The Senate passed the bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it ...

In our news wrap Friday, the Senate advanced a bill by the GOP-led House that would fund the government through the end of ...

The measure had a pathway for passage following the cloture vote on the bill, which passed on a near-partisan basis in the ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top ...

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer voted alongside all Republicans in a key procedural vote to advance House Republicans’ ...

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at ...