The Senate on Monday night advanced a stop-gap spending measure – known as a continuing resolution – to primarily keep the federal government funded at its current level through December with some exceptions. 

The upper chamber advanced the measure by voting in bipartisan support of a procedure called invoking cloture – which essentially ends all debate on the measure and limits further discussion so that it can get a final floor vote.

The only "no" votes were from Sens. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican; Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent; and Democrats Tim Kaine, of Virginia, and Elizabeth Warren.

The measure, if passed by Congress, would bar the Trump administration from putting into action a plan to make political appointees in charge of approving grants, according to Politico, and would prevent Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from getting any new funding under the patch.

The Senate is expected to resume discussion on the resolution Tuesday, but a final vote has yet to be scheduled as senators prepare to leave town for August recess.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.