The US Senate on Friday evening passed a bill to avert a government shutdown after a handful of Democrats abandoned their resistance to the Republican-backed measure.
The Senate voted 54-46 to keep funding the government, just hours before a shutdown would have started.
In an earlier crucial procedural vote, nine Democrats helped Republicans push through the measure, which will fund the federal government through to September 30.
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