Six-month spending patch advances with Democratic votes
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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to end debate on the six-month stopgap funding bill Friday after negotiations all morning and into the afternoon to hammer out a time agreement.
The 62-38 vote saw nine Democrats defy party activists and agree to let the GOP-drafted measure come to a final vote, ahead of a deadline Friday at midnight to avert a partial government shutdown. Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with the Democrats, also voted for cloture.
Before the vote on final passage, senators agreed to votes on four amendments, including one from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that would slash foreign aid spending for the remainder of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
The deal also allows for a separate vote, later on Friday, on stand-alone legislation to restore an omission from the stopgap bill that otherwise would cut the District of Columbia’s budget by over $1 billion for the remainder of the fiscal year.
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