Colorado’s two U.S. senators, Democrats Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, say they intend to vote no on a Republican-drafted spending bill as the federal government lurches toward an imminent shutdown.

Democrats huddled Thursday to discuss the fight they'll face if they refuse to support the Republican Party's continuing resolution to raise the debt ceiling. Among items in the C.R. are provisions for more government job cuts.

For the second time in less than four months, a government shutdown is looming with a matter of hours until a Friday night deadline.

A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led spending bill that already passed the House

Senate Democrats say they are prepared to vote against the Republicans’ bill if lawmakers do not strike a deal by Friday night.

A vote to end debate on the House-passed stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown will take place on Friday afternoon ahead of the late night deadline.

The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce.