During a press conference Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer predicted that Congress would pass a stopgap funding bill by the end of the month.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced the Senate will vote Wednesday afternoon on a stopgap measure funding the federal government until Dec. 20 and will not consider any

Washington lawmakers reached a spending plan Sunday that will keep the government operating through December, avoiding a looming shutdown.

The stopgap funding bill will maintain the government's current level of roughly $1.2 trillion in annual discretionary funding through Dec. 20, avoiding the furloughing of thousands of federal workers and shutdown of a wide swath of government services just weeks before the Nov.

Democrats on Wednesday again helped Republicans get a short-term government funding bill over the finish line to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month. The bill passed by a 341-82 margin,

House Republicans are racing to figure out a compromise to the latest budget standoff among factions within their party. Because of the infighting, any package will need at least some votes from Democrats to pass a three-month extension,

The U.S. House voted Wednesday to pass a short-term funding bill and avoid a government shutdown, after stripping a Donald Trump-backed requirement that Americans show proof of citizenship before voting.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a stopgap bill to avert a partial government shutdown beginning next week, even as a large number of Republicans revolted against their leadership for failing to achieve new federal spending cuts.

The House passed a short-term funding bill ahead of the Oct. 1 government shutdown deadline. The Senate is likely to take up the bill Wednesday night. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion reports.