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The House of Representatives approved a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown in a 320-99 vote Thursday. Congress was up against two deadlines — March 1 and March 8 — for 12 appropriations bills. The Senate is expected to pass the stopgap bill on Thursday evening, marking the fourth time Congress extended funding at current spending levels.

Republicans were split on stopgap bill to avert shutdown, including Utah's delegation. Read more here about the stopgap bill

The short-term extension is the fourth in recent months, and many lawmakers expect it to be the last for the current fiscal year.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on a bipartisan vote passed a short-term funding extension Thursday intended to give lawmakers a bit more time to wrap up work on the annual spending bills — trying to …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon paid competing visits to the nation’s southern border, where Biden called on Congress to reconsider a bipartisan border security deal that Republicans tanked at Trump’s direction. Biden traveled to Brownsville, Texas, while Trump journeyed to Eagle Pass, highlighting how immigration policy has […] The post Presidential campaign moves to the border, as Biden urges Trump to back imm...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on a bipartisan vote passed a short-term funding extension Thursday intended to give lawmakers a bit more time to wrap up work on…

Their visits to the border highlighted differing viewpoints on immigration policies

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on a bipartisan vote passed a short-term funding extension Thursday intended to give lawmakers a bit more time to wrap up work on the annual spending bills — trying to dodge a shutdown despite election year politics and narrow margins. The stopgap spending bill, sometimes called a continuing resolution, or […] The post A day ahead of shutdown, Congress works on advancing stopgap spending bills appeared first on Alaska Beacon.

Through Rep. Blake Moore’s work in Congress, he hopes to be a ‘positive conservative voice for the next generation.’ He talked to the Deseret News about the possibility of a government shutdown. Read more here.

Moore said there is ‘overwhelming bipartisan support for the Sentinel program’