After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a ...

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The Senate has passed a six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to ...

A midnight Friday deadline is looming for the U.S. Senate to pass a federal funding bill to avert a government shutdown.

The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through September, avoiding a government shutdown only hours before funding ...

For all their vows to cut "waste and abuse" in entitlements, they seem oddly reluctant to go after an obvious target.

Ten Democrats joined with most Republicans to set up a final vote on the six-month spending measure hours out from the shutdown deadline.