U.S. Averts Government Shutdown As Senate Passes Stopgap Spending Bill
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deadline.comIn a nighttime session, the U.S. Senate voted 69-28 tonight to pass a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government solvent through Feb.
18. It also included $7 billion in aid to Afghan evacuees, according to the Washington Post.The measure was approved by the House earlier in the day and will now go to President Biden for signature.
The government’s funding had been set to expire Saturday morning.Among the sticking points in the Senate had been Biden’s vaccine mandate for large businesses and federal employees.
The impasse was breached when a group of Republican Senators agreed to move forward if Democrats would allow the body to take a simple majority vote on an amendment to defund the mandate.
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