Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a House-passed spending bill that exposed deep rifts within the Democratic Party.

Here’s what Americans could soon face if Congress doesn’t approve a government funding bill by midnight on Friday: Since Congress has not approved appropriations for any federal departments ...

(CNN) — The Senate passed a bill Friday evening to fund the government into the fall, avoiding a shutdown just hours before a midnight deadline. The stopgap measure, which funds the government ...

and intended to address what she described as a “mistake” in a larger funding bill that Congress passed just moments before. “This bill would simply fix a mistake in the House [continuing ...