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Senate passes bill to avert government shutdown, sending it to Biden to sign
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to extend funding for federal agencies, sending the bill to avert a government shutdown to President Biden’s desk just days before the weekend deadline.
Without the new spending measure, called a continuing resolution or CR, the government would have shut down just after midnight Saturday, forcing federal workers — including military members and airport security agents — to work without pay or go on furlough on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Johnson rebuffed calls from the House GOP’s hard-right flank to include draconian spending cuts and controversial policy provisions, so the bill could attract Democratic votes in the lower chamber, which passed the legislation yesterday.
A band of far-right GOP rebels had ousted his predecessor, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), from the speakership weeks earlier after he relied on Democratic votes to pass legislation to keep the government open at the end of September.
Appropriators have expressed confidence that they could find consensus on several funding bills, but that requires top leaders to settle on a top-line number that lawmakers can use to compromise — something that rankles the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, which feels slighted by Johnson’s resolution.
Many House Republicans saw their move as a double standard, since the conference has incorporated a number of the far right’s spending cut demands in an effort to pass all appropriation bills and get them one step closer to negotiating with the Senate.
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