Congress averts government shutdown after Senate passes stopgap funding bill
US government shutdown averted as Senate passes spending bill
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The US has averted a government shutdown after the Senate passed a Republican-led measure to keep the government funded for the next six months.
The stopgap funding bill passed in the Senate 54-46, as two Democrats joined all but one Republican senator in voting yes. President Donald Trump must now sign it into law before the Friday midnight deadline.
The key vote came earlier when some Senate Democrats, after fierce debate, allowed the measure to pass a procedural hurdle.
The Senate minority leader, Democrat Chuck Schumer, and nine others broke with their colleagues to vote to advance the bill to its final Friday evening vote.
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