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

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 ...

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 ...