Senate Approves Spending Bill With 9 GOP “No” Votes

CBS News reports:

About three hours before a midnight deadline, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill Saturday evening to keep the government funded for 45 days, on a vote of 88 to 9, just before a government shutdown was to go into effect.

The bill, which funds the government through Nov. 17, was signed into law by President Biden late Saturday night, the White House confirmed.

“Tonight, bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate voted to keep the government open, preventing an unnecessary crisis that would have inflicted needless pain on millions of hardworking Americans,” Mr. Biden said in a statement after the passage.

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