There's a growing sense of momentum on Capitol Hill for a plan that would see the Senate funding the rest of the government as soon as Thursday night and averting a partial government shutdown that would begin at midnight Friday.

A partial government shutdown is likely if legislators can't agree on funding for the Department of Homeland Security. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.

Democrats are refusing to pass funding for the Department of Homeland Security after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

There are signs of progress with negotiations over funding for the Department of Homeland Security ahead of a partial government shutdown that would begin at midnight Friday. Talks are intensifying in the final hours between the White House and Senate Democrats to reach an agreement over how to advance a package of bills necessary to fund the government -- including Democrats' request to separate the bill that funds DHS.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said Democrats won't support keeping the government fully open while also funding DHS. Senate Democrats have since called on Republican senators to work with them to advance the other five funding bills of the total six-bill package,

About two months after the last federal government shutdown ended, another funding lapse looms — this one caused by a battle between Republicans and Democrats over funding for immigration enforcement.

Will the government shut down this week? Here's the latest on the Senate vote to fund spending bills to keep it open. Will they vote today?

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the chamber's floor ahead of a procedural vote to advance a government funding package. Schumer said the bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security "still needs a lot of work" and listed out three goals Senate Democrats have agreed on to "rein in ICE and stop the violence.