Senate Passes Stopgap Spending Bill, Moving to Avert Shutdown
Source: New York Times (no paywall)
By Carl Hulse
Jan. 18, 2024 Updated 2:38 p.m. ET
The Senate on Thursday passed a bill to avert a partial government shutdown as Congress raced one day before its spending deadline to send President Biden stopgap legislation to fund federal agencies through early March.
The 77-to-18 vote cleared the way for a vote in the House later Thursday on the measure, which would provide lawmakers more time to pass spending bills totaling $1.66 trillion to fund the government through the fall, the level Democrats and Republicans agreed upon this month. That plan would hold most federal spending steady while bolstering the military.
The stopgap legislation “will give Congress time to continue working on the appropriations process to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year,” Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, said.
House leaders announced they would take up the measure and quickly pass it in a vote expected by evening, as lawmakers rushed to leave Washington before a predicted snowstorm that they worried could ground flights and strand them in the capital for the weekend.
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How quickly these Republicans get off their asses when a storm is coming.
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