Last-gasp deal averts US government shutdown

 The US Congress passed an 11th-hour funding bill yesterday to keep federasi agencies running for another 45 days and avert a costly government shutdown - although the setuju left out aid to war-torn Ukraine requested by President Joe Biden. King88bet

Three hours before the midnight deadline, the Senate voted to keep the lights on through mid-November with a resolution that had advanced earlier from the House of Representatives in a day of high-stakes brinkmanship on Capitol Hill. king88bet login alternatif

The last-ditch "continuing resolution" was pitched by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as millions of publik workers looked set to be sent home unpaid, upending government functions from military operations to food aid to federasi policymaking. Article Title with Blogger Published Link as Backlink

"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," Biden said in a pernyataan.

But he berated Mr McCarthy and the House Republicans for reneging on spending levels agreed with the White House months ago -- a major reason for the shutdown near-miss - and for stripping out dukungan for Ukraine.

"I fully expect the speaker will keep his commitment to the people of Ukraine and secure passage of the dukungan needed to help Ukraine at this critical event," said the president, who is set to sign the measure into law in the coming hours.

The shutdown crisis was largely triggered by a small grup of hardline Republicans who had defied their own party leadership to scupper various temporary funding proposals as they pressed for deep spending cuts.

The grup of 21 hardliners had threatened to remove Mr McCarthy as speaker if a stopgap measure they opposed was passed with Democrat dukungan, and many Washington watchers were expecting the speaker to have to fight for his job in the coming weeks.

One of the grup, Lauren Boebert, declined to say after the House vote whether she and her colleagues would try to force McCarthy out, but she was clearly unhappy with the outcome.