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Biden signs government funding bill, avoiding partial shutdown

2024-12-21 20:11:02Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Biden signs government funding bill, avoiding partial shutdown
Joe Biden

President Joe Biden signed legislation that averted a partial government shutdown as the Christmas and New Year holidays approach.

The president's signature ends days of uncertainty in the nation's capital after Congress passed a bipartisan budget plan shortly after the deadline, which did not include President-elect Donald Trump's request to raise the debt ceiling.

The legislation secures government funding at current levels through March 14 and provides $100 billion in disaster relief and $10 billion in agricultural aid for farmers.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, the US Senate approved the spending bill to fund the US government through March.

Both chambers of Congress, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate, had to approve the bill to avoid a partial government shutdown.

The Senate vote, 85-11, followed a vote in the House of Representatives after two failed attempts. The vote in that chamber was 366 in favor and 34 against. All the votes against were cast by Republicans.

"We are delighted with this result," Mr Johnson said after the vote, adding that he had spoken to Mr Trump and the president-elect "was also delighted with the result".

House Republicans reached a deal among themselves on a new proposal earlier Friday. The latest attempt to avert a government shutdown came after Republicans in Congress failed on Thursday to pass a Trump-backed spending bill that would have raised the debt ceiling, something the president-elect had requested at the last minute.

Dozens of Republicans voted against Thursday's bill, and only two Democrats supported it. The new plan is the same as the one that failed Thursday, except for the part about suspending the debt ceiling.

Mr. Johnson's troubles began this week when he abandoned a bipartisan funding deal he had reached with Democrats after Mr. Trump and billionaire Elon Musk criticized the plan, VOA reports.

Even if the House passed the bill, the government's funding would technically have expired at midnight Friday. However, most of the effects of the shutdown wouldn't take effect until Monday.

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history lasted 34 days, from December 2018 to January 2019, when then-President Trump refused to sign any bill that did not include several billion dollars for a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. That effort contributed to a decline in support for him.

Some information for this article was obtained from Reuters and Associated Press agencies.


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