The last-minute deal heads to the Senate for approval then to President Joe Biden to sign into law before the midnight deadline
It comes as America stands hours away from its government grinding to a halt as Congress has yet to sign off funding to keep its national agencies and services running.
The House voted 335-91 to fund the government for another 45 days, enough to last through mid-November – but not providing additional funds to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion.a shutdown looked all but inevitableA shutdown would mean that most of the government’s 4 million employees would not get paid. It could also mean museums, national parks, research facilities and health centres with national government funding suspend operations.
The stopgap funding bill received overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by party hardliners for a partisan bill. Mr McCarthy abandoned party hardliners’ earlier insistence that any bill pass the chamber with only Republican votes, a change that could cause one of his far-right members to try to oust him from his leadership role.
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