The U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill in the early hours of Saturday morning, with numerous Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues in approving the bill to avert a government shutdown.The vote, 74-24, in the Senate was concluded at approximately 2 a.m. on Saturday, after the funding bill passed in the House of Representatives late Friday morning. Voting continued after the midnight funding deadline and will now go to President Joe Biden's desk for a signature to avert a...
President signs bill into law just hours after Congress passed legislation, averting partial shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate inched closer to passage of a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills late Friday after reaching agreement on a series of proposed amendment votes, though a final vote on passage was set to occur after a midnight funding deadline. Prospects for a short-term government shutdown had appeared to grow Friday []
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown. “This agreement represents a compromise, which means neither side got everything it wanted,” Biden said in a statement. “But it rejects extreme cuts […]
The U.S. Congress approved a funding bill Saturday in a rare show of cross-party unity, keeping federal agencies running through September and averting a damaging partial government shutdown.Senators missed a midnight deadline to pass the $1.2 trillion package to keep the lights on in several key government agencies but voted in the early hours to pass a resolution that had already advanced from the House."It wasn't easy, but tonight our persistence has been worth it," Democratic Majority Leader...
Prospects for a short-term government shutdown had appeared to grow Friday, but shortly before midnight Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a breakthrough.
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The Senate approved a $1.2 trillion funding package early Saturday, sending the massive spending bill off to President Joe Biden after missing a midnight government funding deadline. The legislation passed 74-24 shortly after 2 a.m. ET and capped off months of bipartisan dealmaking to fund the government through Sept. 30. The bill unveiled Thursday funds […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills just a few
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense months-long spending fight. The chamber approved the mammoth package, which spans more than a thousand pages, in a 74-24 vote, sending the []
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense months-long spending fight. The chamber approved the mammoth package, which spans more than a thousand pages, in a 74-24 vote, sending the []
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense mon