//Senate must pass stopgap funding bill Friday to avert shutdown at midnight

Senate must pass stopgap funding bill Friday to avert shutdown at midnight

Congress is racing the clock with just hours to go until a shutdown is triggered by the <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/government-funding-shutdown-possibility/index.html” target=”_blank”>expiration of government funding</a> at midnight Friday.

The Senate must pass a short-term government funding bill sometime during the day Friday ahead of the funding expiration deadline to avert a shutdown,