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With a government shutdown narrowly avoided late Friday into Saturday morning, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to President Joe Biden's desk. An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier ...
The odds of a government shutdown are surging as President Trump battles Democrats over efforts to freeze funding and Republicans brawl internally over the size and scope of potential cuts. With a ...
Congress voted to avert a shutdown early Saturday morning after House GOP leaders dropped a demand from Donald Trump over the debt limit, highlighting the limits of the president-elect’s ...
(The Center Square) – A government funding stopgap is on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk after the Senate voted 85-11 to pass a 118-page bill to keep the federal government open until ...
The Senate passed the stopgap funding bill minutes after the midnight deadline passed. The vote caps a week full of drama on Capitol Hill. President Joe Biden signed a stopgap funding bill on ...
Schumer replied, "We shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute." [29] Ten days later, Trump blamed Democrats for the impending shutdown. [30] Three days later, Politico reported that Trump was willing to sign a bill with no funding for a border wall that delayed a government shutdown into 2019 and the new Congress. [31]
The Senate sent the spending package to Biden's desk at 12:38 a.m. Saturday by a vote of 85 to 11, hours after the House voted 366 to 34 to approve it. The bill funds the government through March 14.
The shutdown began on the first anniversary of Donald Trump taking office. [8] The shutdown ended when Senate Democrats agreed to end the filibuster and invoke cloture with the Republican promise that they would allow debate on the DREAM Act before the continuing resolution would expire on February 8, 2018. Some liberals have criticized the ...