A handful of Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to advance a stopgap government funding bill – hours before a partial shutdown of federal agencies was set to take effect Friday at midnight. The House-passed GOP plan to keep the government funded through September cleared the Senate’s filibuster in a 62-38 vote,

A GOP funding bill passed the Senate on Friday in a vote that narrowly averted a government shutdown hours before the midnight deadline. The legislation now heads to President Donald Trump to sign into law.

After a nail-biter cloture vote in the U.S. Senate, a government shutdown appears unlikely as Republicans’ stopgap bill now moves to a final majority vote before the midnight deadline. Despite most Democratic senators vocally opposing the six-month Continuing Resolution,

Friday to pass a Republican-sponsored stopgap funding bill that averted a federal government shutdown. The vote was the second of two key votes that passed the bill: The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote.