House passes short-term funding bill to avert shutdown
- The House plans to vote on a stopgap measure to extend funding deadlines until March. Votes for the spending measure on Friday were canceled.
- The proposed continuing resolution would extend funding for various government departments until March 8.
- Another set of funding bills for federal departments aims to keep operations running until March 22 to allow lawmakers time to finalize them.
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The United States Congress has approved another extension of the budget provisional, which will keep part of the federal agencies operating through March 8 and the rest until March 22. The measure, designed to prevent a partial collapse of government offices on the night of Saturday, is now awaiting the signature of U.S. President Joe Biden. This is reported by The Associated Press (AP).
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Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed a bill on Thursday that secures government funding for now. A so-called shutdown has thus been prevented. However, this is again a temporary measure.
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