The Senate has passed a six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure.

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a House-passed spending bill that exposed deep rifts within the Democratic Party.

The Senate passed a bill Friday that will fund the government through September and avert a shutdown. Some Democratic lawmakers had wanted to use a shutdown threat to curtail President Trump's mass firing of federal workers.