Senate Approves Funding Bill To Avert Govt Shutdown

The New York Times reports:

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.

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U.S. Senate PASSES government funding bill, 77-18.

Goes now to the U.S. House. pic.twitter.com/UJIxLNqgXN

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