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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 immigration deal appeared first