Colorado’s two U.S. senators, Democrats Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, say they intend to vote no on a Republican-drafted spending bill as the federal government lurches toward an imminent shutdown.

For the second time in less than four months, a government shutdown is looming with a matter of hours until a Friday night deadline.

A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led spending bill that already passed the House

Senate Democrats say they are prepared to vote against the Republicans’ bill if lawmakers do not strike a deal by Friday night.

A vote to end debate on the House-passed stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown will take place on Friday afternoon ahead of the late night deadline.

The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce.