Government shutdown updates: Biden signs funding bill, averting shutdown
Biden signed the stopgap measure on Saturday.
With a government shutdown narrowly avoided late Friday into Saturday morning, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to President Joe Biden's desk.
An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier this week by President-elect Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk. Then on Thursday night, the House failed to pass a revamped plan that included Trump's explosive demand that the debt limit be extended.
Under the proposal, the 118-page bill contains most of the provisions that were put in place in the bipartisan bill that was agreed to on Wednesday. The bill includes $100 billion for disaster aid, $30 billion for farmers and a one-year extension of the farm bill, provisions that were under heavy debate prior to this week's votes.
Key Headlines
- Biden signs short-term government funding bill
- Senate approves short-term government funding bill
- Ahead of vote on shutdown bill, Senate approves funding for pediatric cancer research
- Jeffries calls funding bill passage 'a victory'
- Johnson celebrates passage of funding bill, urges Senate to clear it swiftly
- What's included in the new bill
Voting formally ends, Democrats vote yes
With an overwhelming bipartisan majority, Republicans and Democrats came together Friday evening to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government open through March 14.
The final vote was 366-34-1, easily surpassing the two-thirds majority threshold needed for passage under suspension of the rules.
No Democrats voted against the measure, while 34 Republicans voted against it. One Democrat voted "present."
The bill now heads to the Senate with about six hours left before tonight’s deadline.
-ABC News' John Parkinson
Biden supports funding bill
President Joe Biden has thrown his support for the funding bill that is being voted on by the House, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The president "supports moving this legislation forward and ensuring that the vital services the government provides for hardworking Americans -- from issuing Social Security checks to processing benefits for veterans -- can continue as well as to grant assistance for communities that were impacted by devastating hurricanes," she said in a statement.
Jean-Pierre added that while the bill "does not include everything we sought," it does keep the government running, get aid to those still recovering from disasters earlier this year and " eliminates the accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires."
She slammed President-elect Donald Trump for causing the last-minute scramble.
"Following an order by President-elect Trump, yesterday Republicans walked away from a bipartisan deal and threatened to shut down the government at the 11th hour in order to pave the way to provide tax breaks for billionaires. This revised legislation does not do that," she said.
-ABC News' Molly Nagle
House passes bill to avert government shutdown
The House of Representatives passed the two-thirds majority to pass the funding bill to avert a federal shutdown tonight. The bill, which funds the government until March, will head to the Senate.
Musk endorses funding deal
Billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk posted a statement on X that he supports the current funding deal that is being voted on.
"The Speaker did a good job here, given the circumstances. It went from a bill that weighed pounds to a bill that weighed ounces. Ball should now be in the Dem court," said Musk, who threatened GOP members two days ago.
-ABC News' Claire Brinberg