| In Congress' last action before Election Day, the Senate cleared a stopgap funding bill that heads off a government shutdown next week, bucking the demands of Donald Trump. President Joe Biden is expected to quickly sign the measure, preventing a funding lapse on Tuesday and delaying the government shutdown deadline to Dec. 20. It also punts a potentially bitter funding fight to just before Christmas, with the results hinging on the November elections and which party wins control of the House, Senate and White House. Despite Trump's calls this month for Republicans to shut down the government unless they passed a bill to prevent noncitizen voting, the outcome was "more or less the result people expected from the beginning," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said this week. Read the latest. | 
