WASHINGTON, United States -- 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.
Three hours before the midnight Saturday deadline, the Senate voted to keep the lights on through mid-November with a resolution that had advanced earlier from the House of Representatives in a day of high-stakes brinkmanship on Capitol Hill.
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. One of the group, Lauren Boebert, declined to say after the House vote whether she and her colleagues would try to force McCarthy out, but she was clearly unhappy with the outcome.
"In 45 days we should get our work all done," he said, while seeming to offer a hand to the hardliners, saying,"I welcome those 21 back in." McCarthy said Russia's invasion was"horrendous" but insisted there could be"no blank check" for Ukraine. Bowman's spokesman insisted it was an accident, but Republicans accused him of seeking to delay proceedings.
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