The Senate approved a House GOP-crafted spending bill hours before the shutdown deadline Friday evening, capping off the first funding fight of President Trump’s second term — a saga that ripped apart the Democratic Party.

The legislation funds the government through Sept. 30, boosts defense funding by $6 billion and imposes $13 billion in cuts to nondefense funding. Trump is expected to sign the measure, having previously endorsed it.

The political fallout over the measure is reverberating the most among Democrats, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) facing fury from much of his party over his decision to provide the votes necessary for the measure to get through the Senate.

Here are five takeaways.

Johnson succeeds in jamming Schumer

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) set the tone for this week’s shutdown showdown, unveiling the stopgap Saturday, selling it to his conference Monday and muscling it through his razor-thin majority Tuesday.

Then, he sent the House home, jamming the Senate with the bill and leaving Democrats with the choice of opposing the measure and shutting down the government, or swallowing the legislation to keep the lights on in Washington.

In the end, enough Democratic senators chose the latter at Schumer’s behest.

Passage of the stopgap in the House marked a major victory for Johnson, and a feat that would have been inconceivable in years prior. The Speaker, with help from a Trump lobbying campaign, managed to get nearly his entire conference — all........

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