There are signs of hope from the U.S. Senate tonight on a potential way to avoid a federal government shutdown tomorrow night.

60 votes are needed to move anything forward, and it's still unclear if enough Democrats will join Republicans to pass a stop-gap deal and what they may get in return.

Are Lisa Desjardins tracking the latest on Capitol Hill,

and she joins me now. So Lisa, just let's talk with us, this potential government shutdown.

What is the latest? Where do things stand?

We've had another long, strange couple of days here on Capitol Hill, but I can report now

from sources familiar that there is potentially a break in the impasse right now. They need about eight Senate Democratic votes.

This morning, it didn't look like those votes were there.

But now I can report that the Senate Democratic leader himself, Chuck Schumer, has told Democrats

that he plans to vote yes on that critical 60 margin vote.

Now, with that, we expect other Democrats to come

on board. This, of course, is the House measure that was passed with fund government all the way

until September 30th. Democrats, by and large, do not like it because it would continue to allow

Donald Trump and Elon Musk to cut government as they like. There's no guardrails in here as Democrats would want.

But of course, Democrats don't control either chamber. This is a real test for Chuck Schumer. It's been unclear as Democrats were divided what to do, how he would approach this.

But now it looks like he's trying to split the atom here with most

Democrats voting against us, he himself leading a few that could allow the government to stay open.

The only Democrat officially voting yes right now is John Federman of Pennsylvania. He is someone

who has said openly, the idea of Democrats pushing for a shutdown or allowing a shutdown is something

that he thinks is, you know, beyond democratic strategy and is something that would really hurt

the country. So he is a yes. And now we are reporting tonight that Senator Schumer will be a yes

as well, likely opening up enough votes to get a spending bill through tomorrow.

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