Senators voted to advance the House-passed stopgap spending bill on Friday as the deadline for a government shutdown inches closer. By a margin of 62-38, senators voted to advance the measure.

The Senate will take a key procedural vote on Friday afternoon to potentially tee up final passage of a crucial stopgap government spending bill to avoid a shutdown as time runs out. After tense ...

The 217-213 vote to approve Republicans’ stopgap bill saw just one GOP defection, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and now amplifies pressure on Senate Democrats to decide whether to back the ...

House Republicans are racing to pass their bill by 11:59 p.m. EDT Friday to avert a government shutdown, teeing up a final vote on the legislation Tuesday afternoon. The chamber voted 216-214 to ...

Approval of the bill sent it to the Senate, where Republicans need the cooperation of several Democrats to move it past a filibuster and to passage before a midnight deadline on Friday. By Catie ...

March 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday signed a stopgap spending bill, passed by Congress this week, that averts a partial government shutdown, the White House said in a ...