Stopgap funding deal sets stage for 2025 farm bill fight
Friday’s spending package provides billions for farmers hit by storms, drought and economic woes but leaves gaps for the next farm bill debate.
Latest stopgap funding bill, sans debt limit, passes House
The House finally passed a stopgap funding extension Friday, hours before the midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats moved off their opposition to anything but the larger bipartisan package that President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed earlier this week.
Transition Updates: Senate Approves Stopgap Funding Bill Just After Shutdown Deadline
President Biden is expected to sign it later Saturday. The new legislation will keep the government open but did not include the debt ceiling increase that President-elect Donald J. Trump had demanded.
Government shutdown updates: Biden signs funding bill, averting shutdown
House Republicans will meet behind closed doors at 12:30 p.m. ET to discuss a new plan to avert a government shutdown -- as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says the “lines of communication have been reopened” with Speaker Mike Johnson.
Biden signs stopgap bipartisan measure to fund government, avert shutdown
Johnson tried to placate Trump by bringing up a slimmed-down, 116-page version of the bill on Thursday. It included disaster relief, farm aid and the debt ceiling. Trump immediately backed it, calling it a "SUCCESS" and "a very good deal."
Biden signs bipartisan funding bill to keep government open
“The bipartisan funding bill I just signed keeps the government open and delivers the urgently needed disaster relief that I requested for recovering communities as well as the funds needed to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge,” Biden said in a statemen t after inking the deal.
Government shutdown live updates: House passes funding deal
A government shutdown will set in at midnight if Congress doesn't come up with a bipartisan deal. Keep up with the USA TODAY Network's live coverage.
Why Congress Can’t Seem to Pass a Funding Bill
Growing discord among Republicans, a louder MAGA faction and a last-minute controversial request are standing in the way of Congress striking a funding bill.
Senate passes government funding bill, averts shutdown
The vote capped a frantic week that saw Donald Trump and Elon Musk defeat an initial bipartisan deal, throwing Congress into disarray.
President Biden signs stopgap funding bill into law, narrowly averting shutdown
The White House has announced that President Biden signed a stopgap funding bill into law on Saturday, extending government ...
Biden signs stopgap funding bill into law after Congress votes to avert shutdown
Congress voted to avert a shutdown early Saturday morning after House GOP leaders dropped a demand from Donald Trump over the ...
Bipartisan support for stopgap funding bill prevents government shutdown
After days of political theater and threats of financial doomsday, a shutdown has been averted. Erica Brown reports on the ...
WNBA star takes aim at Elon Musk, rips billionaires after funding bill gets passed
Phoenix Mercury star Natasha Cloud took aim at Elon Musk and ripped billionaires in a post on X after the short-term stopgap ...
House Democrats say GOP caved to Musk in funding bill, protecting his China interests
The funding bill that Congress passed over the weekend could have gone further if not for Elon Musk’s influence over ...