BREAKING: U.S. Senate votes 69-28 to pass a stopgap measure to keep the government open through Feb. 18 and avert a government shutdown; bill moves to President Biden, who is expected to sign it before Friday's midnight deadline.
before the Friday night deadline, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden for his signature.
“I am glad that, in the end, cooler heads prevailed, the government will stay open, and I thank the members of this chamber for walking us back from the brink of an avoidable, needless and costly shutdown,” said Schumer on the Senate floor prior to the vote. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made clear before the vote that lawmakers still have work to do on the spending bills for the fiscal year.
However, Congress didn't reach the agreement without some obstacles earlier in the day. Republicans in the House and the Senate made an effort to delay passage of the spending bill over objections to the Biden administration's Covid-19 vaccination mandates for workers.
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