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    Home - USA News - US Senate passes government funding bill to avoid shutdown
    USA News Updated:December 21, 2024

    US Senate passes government funding bill to avoid shutdown

    By David Pike3 Mins Read
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    US Senate passes government funding bill to avoid shutdown

    The US Senate passes government funding bill to avoid shutdown. The Senate has rushed through the final passage of a bipartisan plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid.

    US Senate passes government funding bill to avoid shutdown

    Facing a government shutdown deadline, the restructured bill dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.

    House Speaker Mike Johnson had insisted Congress would “meet our obligations” and not allow federal operations to shutter ahead of the Christmas holiday season.

    Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters

    But the day’s outcome was uncertain after Mr Trump doubled down on his insistence that a debt ceiling increase be included in any deal — if not, he said in an early morning post, let the closures “start now”.

    The House approved Mr Johnson’s new bill overwhelmingly, 366-34. The Senate worked into the night to pass it, 85-11, just past the deadline. At midnight, the White House said it had ceased shutdown preparations.

    President Joe Biden, who has played a less public role in the process throughout a turbulent week, was expected to sign the measure into law on Saturday.

    Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters “This is a good outcome for the country,” Mr Johnson said after the House vote, adding he had spoken with Mr Trump and the President-elect “was certainly happy about this outcome, as well”.

    The final product was the third attempt from Mr Johnson, the beleaguered House speaker, to achieve one of the basic requirements of the federal government — keeping it open.

    The US Senate worked late into the night to pass the bill  as the US Senate passes government funding bill to avoid shutdown

    The US Senate worked late into the night to pass the bill

    It raised stark questions about whether Mr Johnson will be able to keep his job in the face of angry Republican colleagues and work alongside Mr Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk, who called the legislative plays from afar.

    The drastically slimmed-down 118-page package would fund the government at current levels until March 14 and add 100 billion dollars (£79.5 billion) in disaster aid and 10 billion dollars (£7.9 billion) in agricultural assistance to farmers.

    Gone is Mr Trump’s demand to lift the debt ceiling, which Republican leaders told lawmakers would be debated as part of their tax and border packages in the new year.

    Republicans made a so-called handshake agreement to raise the debt limit at that time while also cutting 2.5 trillion dollars (£2 trillion) in spending over 10 years.

    It is essentially the same deal that flopped the night before in a spectacular setback — opposed by most Democrats and some of the most conservative Republicans — minus Mr Trump’s debt ceiling demand.

    But it is far smaller than the original bipartisan accord Mr Johnson struck with Democratic and Republican leaders — a 1,500-page bill that Mr Trump and Mr Musk rejected, forcing him to start over.

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    David Pike is an experienced news journalist with over 20 years experience as a UK News editor for WTX News and other news publications.

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