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This short-term resolution is now on its way to the House, where its slated for a later-day vote with the ultimate goal of securing President Joe Bidens approval.

The sit down with Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate leaders, including the chairmen of influential national security committees, could make or break the political trade-off that has been simmering for weeks.

Congressional leaders are preparing a stopgap bill to keep the federal government running into March and avoid a partial shutdown next week.

Congress leaders agreed on a two-step temporary funding bill to keep the government running until early March, reports US media. The resolution, to be outlined soon, requires approval from both the House and Senate.

Leadership in the US House of Representatives and Senate reached an agreement on another stopgap bill to keep the US government funded until March, a source familiar with the matter told Sputnik on Sunday.

On Tuesday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell revealed that Congress will have to pass another stopgap to avoid a government shutdown, but this effort is expected to meet some resistance in the House as Speaker Mike Johnson shows an unwillingness to commit. “Obviously, we’re going to have to pass a (continuing resolution),” McConnell of Kentucky told reporters on Tuesday.

The Senate approved a short-term funding bill for the federal government late Wednesday night, averting a potential shutdown at the end of the week while pushing the next funding deadline into early 2024. Initially passed by the House on Tuesday, the bill now goes to the White House, where President Joe Biden is expected to sign it before a midnight deadline Friday. The bill passed easily in an 87-11 vote, with 10 Republicans and one Democrat voting against it. The lone Democrat holdout, Sen. Mi

President Biden signed a funding bill late Thursday to avert a shutdown and keep the government open into early 2024. The president signed the measure while in San Francisco, where he is meeting with world leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. The government would have shut down at the end of the day…

Congress has passed a stopgap bill, delaying a government funding crisis until the new year.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rolled out a two-step government funding stopgap bill on Saturday, settling on an unusual approach to avert a government shutdown that is already getting pushback from Republicans with just days until a Friday funding deadline. The “laddered” continuing resolution (CR) released Saturday would have some funding run out on Jan. 19, and…