Some Senate Democrats, including Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, have alternatively pushed for a four-week stopgap ...

Ten Democrats joined with Republicans to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the measure. The vote was 62-38.

Senate Democrats, fearful of what Trump might do during a shutdown, voted in sufficient numbers to pass the GOP continuing resolution.

Democrats voted to end the filibuster, paving the way for Republicans to pass their funding bill before the shutdown deadline at midnight.

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

Senate votes on funding bill ahead of midnight deadline to avoid government shutdown - Democrats warn against GOP’s ...

A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown has narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the ...

Nine Democrats in the U.S. Senate voted with Republicans to advance a bill funding the government through September and requiring $13 billion in non-defense spending cuts.

Nine Democrats and one Independent voted to advance a House GOP stopgap bill to fund the government through September 30.

An afternoon vote was expected to clear the way for a Republican-written bill to keep government funding flowing past ...

Washington is now fully set to avert a government shutdown after an up and down week that saw House Republicans offering a ...

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...