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

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

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

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer voted alongside Republicans to advance a House GOP spending bill that would keep the ...

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

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

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 ...

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