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The House on Saturday approved a “clean” stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration hours before the midnight funding deadline. The measure would keep the government funded at current spending levels for 45 days and it includes $16 billion in disaster relief — matching the figure the…

McCarthy, who has long been on thin ice with some conservatives, said "there has to be an adult in the room" as he spoke after passage of the bill.

House Republicans late Thursday night approved legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal year 2024. The legislation cleared the chamber in a 220-208 vote. Passing the bill will not help prevent a government shutdown Saturday night, but House GOP leaders are hoping that moving single-subject appropriations bills will help the conference…

"Does that mean you just don't want to govern?" House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said of GOP holdouts who are against passing a short-term measure to keep the government open.

The US may run out of money to support Ukraine "in a few weeks," National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby warned. However, its not the potential government shutdown that could make the Ukrainian aid shrunk, former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says there will be another vote Thursday to begin consideration of the biggest annual spending bill, the one for defense.

Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersRepublican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appeared to capitulate for the second time in as many weeks on Tuesday, scratching a procedural vote on a spending bill after his party descended into full-on open warfare. The short-term stopgap bill to fund the government through Oct. 31 was negotiated by leaders from across the party and was supposed to be McCarthy’s big show of unity. Instead, it descended into a nasty, public spat Monday when at least 16 Republica...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the government for one week in a bid to buy more time for... 15.12.2022, Sputnik International

Weapons. the comment comes after he fired two missiles. the pentagon has said there is no immediate threat to u.s. territory. and congress narrowly averted a shutdown friday after passing a stopgap bill to fund the government through mid-december. president biden signed the legislation yesterday afternoon after ten house republicans joined democrats to vote in favor of the resolution. and the short-term measure also provides around $12 billion for ukraine as it continues to counter russias i...

The Senate voted to pass a bill to keep the government funded until Dec. 16, putting Congress on a path to averting a shutdown this weekend.