Congress approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline, Biden expected to sign

The House voted 254-175 to advance the measure. Just hours earlier, the Senate voted 65-35 — a display of bipartisanship in both chambers. The bill will now go to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the Senate vote a “glimmer of hope.”

“For this moment, this is one of the biggest problems that has faced us in the last while, making sure the government stays open, and now we can be sure it will,” said Schumer on the floor, prior to the final vote.

Earlier in the week the Senate blocked the House version of the bill in a procedural vote because of Republican opposition to extending the debt ceiling, which for political reasons they want to force Democrats to approve on their own.

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