The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine Democrats and one independent, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., voted in favor of cloture. That vote allowed the bill to pass with a simple majority in the final vote.

WASHINGTON—A group of Democrats led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer helped Republicans advance a bill Friday to fund the government through September, averting a shutdown but leaving Democrats despondent and deeply divided over how to resist President Trump’s aggressive agenda.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several book tour events this week amid the ongoing Democratic backlash to his vote last week to approve a GOP-led government funding bill. Schumer had events planned in New York City,

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer postponed his book tour events for the week of March 17 "for security reasons," according to an announcement posted on the website of the Baltimore library where he was due to speak on Monday.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has landed on his go-to line for the Democrats calling on him to relinquish his post: I’m the best for the job. What was supposed to be a media blitz this week to promote his new book on antisemitism with previously scheduled stops across several states has instead turned