With the help of several Democrats, the Senate voted 54-46 Friday to pass a Republican-sponsored stopgap funding bill that averted a federal government shutdown. The vote was the second of two key ...

The signing came after the Senate passed the bill in a 54 to 46 vote, with one Republican opposing it and two Democrats supporting it after 10 Democrats provided the votes earlier Friday to ...

Republicans, who control the Senate 53-47, needed Democratic help first to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to bypass the filibuster. After days of waffling and demanding a shorter-term funding ...