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.
Biden is set to sign the measure into law in the coming hours, with a White House official telling AFP the administration expects Republicans to allow a quick separate vote on Ukraine aid. But the result could end up costing McCarthy his job. The 21 hardliners had threatened to remove him as speaker if a stopgap measure they opposed was passed with Democrat support.
McCarthy sought to convey confidence both about his own future and the prospects for securing a final agreement within the new timeframe. “This is enough to keep the government open, and I’m not going to shut the government down over foreign aid,” one House Democrat, Jared Moskowitz, told CNN. With tensions running high and Democrats poring 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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