WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats on March 14 are expected to help Republicans pass a House-approved bill to keep the government open, hours before a shutdown is set to begin.
After speculation about its fate in the upper chamber, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that he would reluctantly support invoking cloture on the legislation.
“I will vote to keep the government open and not shut down the government,” he said during a March 13 speech on the Senate floor.
The stopgap funding legislation, passed by the House on March 11 in a 217–213 vote, extends the government funding deadline from March 14 to Sept. 30, the final day of the fiscal year….