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US Senate temporarily avoids government shutdown
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WASHINGTON, 19 February 2022, (TON): The US Senate passed a stop-gap funding bill, after threats by some Republicans earlier in the week risked a damaging government shutdown.
The bill, which passed by 65 votes to 27, will extend federal spending at current levels until March 11.
Had the bill not passed by Friday at midnight, the federal government would have entered a costly shutdown, with hundreds of thousands of government employees furloughed and all non-essential offices closed.
The House of Representatives passed the bill, the third such stop-gap spending text in less than five months, on February 8. It now goes to President Joe Biden to sign it into law.
Nineteen Republican senators joined Democrats in voting for the bill, putting it above the threshold of a filibuster.
Despite some threats from Republicans to hold up the process, a shutdown was highly unlikely.
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