WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed a authorities funding invoice on Saturday, formally averting a shutdown disaster after Congress handed the invoice.
The package deal funds the federal government at present ranges via March 14, and contains $100 billion in catastrophe help and a one-year farm invoice. It didn’t embrace a debt restrict extension demanded by President-elect Donald Trump.
The Senate passed the funding invoice in a single day on Saturday, shortly after the House handed the invoice. The Senate vote was 85-11, and the House vote was 366-34.
The White House mentioned in a press release that the invoice had been signed however Biden has not but weighed in publicly after the announcement.
On Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned that Biden supported the laws that finally handed Congress.
“While it doesn’t embrace every little thing we sought, it contains catastrophe aid that the President requested for the communities recovering from the storm, eliminates the accelerated pathway to a tax minimize for billionaires, and would be certain that the federal government can proceed to function at full capability,” Jean-Pierre mentioned in Friday’s assertion.
The invoice’s signing caps off a chaotic few days that started when Trump and his ally Elon Musk publicly opposed the preliminary bipartisan deal, successfully killing it.
As the 2 males vocally opposed the deal, Republicans in Congress swiftly echoed their criticism.
Trump, nonetheless, additionally urged Republicans to increase or abolish the debt ceiling, a request that didn’t make it into the ultimate invoice.
Earlier this week, Trump threatened primaries for Republicans who defied his push to increase the debt restrict. Republicans, nonetheless, nonetheless overwhelmingly supported the ultimate invoice.
