Anger was rising in the Democratic ranks Saturday after the party's top US senator led a band of lawmakers in reluctant support of a Republican measure that prevented a government shutdown.Congressional passage of the controversial spending bill was being seen as a setback for Democratic backbenchers -- and the latest illustration of political impotence of party leaders in their opposition to President Donald Trump as he takes a wrecking ball to the US federal bureaucracy.

The US Congress approved the Republican spending bill on Friday, just hours before the deadline, preventing a government shutdown. The bill’s passing, however, unearthed the deep rifts in the Democratic Party,

President Trump praised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for saying he would back the GOP spending bill to avert a government shutdown.