Schumer celebrated after the Senate passed the short-term bill funding the government.

"It's been a day full of twists and turns," he said. "The American people can breathe a sigh of relief: there will be no government shutdown."

Schumer also rebuked Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Republican hard-liners in the House.

"After trying to take our government hostage, MAGA Republicans won nothing," he said. "So one more time: it is good Speaker McCarthy finally heeded our message that bipartisanship was the only way. He could have made this decision weeks ago."

The Senate late Saturday night voted 88-9 to approve the House-passed CR which would fund the government until Nov. 17. The bill now heads to Biden's desk, where it is expected to be signed, narrowly avoiding a shutdown.

Every Democrat voted for the bill along with the majority of Republicans.

Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., voted in the affirmative to pass the short-time bill to fund the government. Earlier Saturday, two Republican senators said that Bennet was holding up the Senate vote over the lack of Ukraine funding in the measure.

After voting, Bennet told reporters that "I think it was really, really important for us to send a signal to the world. We’re gonna continue to work in a bipartisan way to get Ukraine the funds."

Citing his family's painful history during the Holocaust, he said the issue is personal for him.

"These votes on Ukraine are beyond politics," he said.

The vote is ongoing, but the Senate has cleared the 60-vote threshold to pass this CR and fund the government for another 45 days.

Senators can always change their votes before it's over, with 74 yeas so far, this will pass.

With roughly 3.5 hours to go until the government runs out of funds, the Senate is now voting on the House's short-term funding bill.

CLIVE, Iowa — During a campaign stop as Congress considered a continuing resolution that did not include funding for Ukraine, presidential candidate Nikki Haley weighed in saying she supported continued support in the war.

"What we have given is 3.5% of our defense budget," she said. "Eleven European countries have given more than us, as they should. That's a small price to pay to prevent war. Don't give up now. ... This is about our security. Don't ever allow America to get into the position that we are so arrogant that we don't think we need friends."

"We always need friends," she continued. "And we always need to have a president that has moral clarity — moral clarity to know the difference between right and wrong. Moral clarity and know the difference between good and evil."

Following today's successful vote in the House to avoid a shutdown, conservatives expressed frustration with the fact that Congress had passed another CR instead of completing all the appropriations bills on time.

But two who voted against the bill — Reps. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, — both said they aren’t focused on potentially ousting McCarthy from his job right now.

"We are not there right now. We just passed this," Hunt said, telling reporters that forcing a vote to oust McCarthy is a "conversation that I’m not even willing to have right now. We aren’t there yet."

Boebert said her focus is getting full-year appropriations bills done to fund the government.

Asked if she'd vote to remove McCarthy as speaker, Boebert responded: "That isn’t what we’re talking about right now."

We are expecting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to speak on the floor soon to deliver an update on the rest of the night.