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President Biden on Saturday night signed a stopgap funding bill, avoiding a government shutdown right before the midnight deadline.

The continuing resolution (CR), passed by both the House and Senate by wide margins earlier in the day, will continue funding the government at its current spending levels into mid-November. It includes $16 billion in disaster relief, but no aid for Ukraine or changes to border policy.

“I just signed a law to keep the government open for 47 days. There’s plenty of time to pass Government funding bills for the next fiscal year, and I strongly urge Congress to get to work right away. The American people expect their government to work. Let’s make sure it does,” Biden wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gaetz said and CR that Democrats supported would be "shot chaser" where the chaser is a motion to vacate McCarthy. So here we go I guess. Punishment for doing the bare minimum of governing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Let the Republicans tear each other apart. Not something I'm going to cry about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehh there's a pretty decent chance that was a bluff by Gaetz. Reps have no other options for speaker right now; nobody else wants the job, and the very few who do have zero chance of being elected to the position.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ha! You expected sanity from Gaetz https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/us/politics/mccarthy-speaker-gaetz.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

A day after the Republican speaker turned to Democrats for help passing a stopgap spending bill to avert a shutdown, the far-right congressman promised to try to remove him from his post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know if there's a way to access a non-paywalled version of that article?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Go to any news site. They all have a similar article

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how we got screwed this time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Congress gave themselves a raise.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until after the election, this is a 45 day CR.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not any meaningful federal election. Elections are in 2024.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He may be referring to the upcoming Virginia elections on November 7th. The polls favor the GOP, and a shutdown would have angered Democrats to slaughter the GOP. This CR avoids a doomsday scenario for the Governor's party.