By Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse New York Times
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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government shutdown at midnight, passing a GOP-written stopgap spending measure after Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and a small group of Democrats joined Republicans in allowing it to advance.

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