Washington, DC – The US Congress passed an 11th-hour funding bill Saturday to keep federal agencies running for another 45
days and avert a costly government shutdown — although the deal left out aid to war-torn Ukraine requested by President Joe Biden.
“Tonight, bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate voted to keep the government open, preventing an unnecessary crisis that would have inflicted needless pain on millions of hardworking Americans,” Biden said in a statement. The shutdown crisis was largely triggered by a small group of hardline Republicans who had defied their own party leadership to scupper various temporary funding proposals as they pressed for deep spending cuts.
“There are too many members here who are comfortable doing things the way they’ve been done since the mid ‘90s,” she told reporters. “And that’s why we’re sitting at $33 trillion in debt.”US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, celebrates after meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Saturday.
Arming and funding Kyiv in its desperate war against the Russian invasion has been a key policy plank for the Biden administration and, while the stopgap is temporary, it does raise questions over the political viability of renewing the multibillion-dollar flow of assistance. With tensions running high as Democrats pored over the text of McCarthy’s proposal, one of their lawmakers, Jamaal Bowman, triggered a fire alarm in a building housing congressional offices an hour before the House vote.
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