Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that Senate Democrats are willing to consider a short-term spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of this week.

Schumer told reporters that a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government, perhaps through February, is something Senate Democrats would “very seriously consider” to avoid a partial government shutdown in several agencies that don’t yet have full funding for fiscal 2019.

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