WASHINGTON: The US Congress passed an 11th-hour funding bill at the weekend to keep federal agencies running for another 45 days and avert a costly government shutdown—although the deal left out aid to war-torn Ukraine requested by President Joe Biden (pic).
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.The last-ditch “continuing resolution” was pitched by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as millions of public workers looked set to be sent home unpaid, upending government functions from military operations to food aid to federal policymaking.
“I fully expect the speaker will keep his commitment to the people of Ukraine and secure passage of the support needed to help Ukraine at this critical moment,” said the president, who signed the measure late Saturday, according to the White House.The shutdown crisis was largely triggered by a small group of hardline Republicans who had defied their own party leadership to scupper various temporary funding proposals as they pressed for deep spending cuts.
McCarthy sought to convey confidence both about his own future and the prospects for securing a final agreement by the new mid-November deadline. “I have a real concern of what’s going to happen long term, but I don’t want to waste any money,” he said. If Congress had failed to keep the government open, the closures would have begun just after midnight and would have delayed salaries for millions of federal employees and military personnel.
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