Senate Democrats announced their opposition to a Republican stopgap funding bill, increasing the risk of a government shutdown by the end of the week.

Despite pressure from the left to hold firm, some Democratic senators seem headed for an off-ramp.

Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., who didn’t take a position on the bill. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has said he will support the stopgap funding bill because it is preferable to a government shutdown. Many ...

Blocking the bill would require at least 41 of Schumer’s Democrats to vote against limiting debate on it, which could stop the measure dead in its tracks and could lead to a partial shutdown, which ...