After tough negotiations on Capitol Hill and eleventh-hour interference from President-elect Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk, the House overcome A funding bill to avert a government shutdown Friday night, with the Senate following early Saturday morning.
The 118 page bill It includes most of the provisions that were implemented in the bipartisan bill agreed to before it died Wednesday. Musk criticized Republicans who helped
The Capitol is pictured in Washington on December 20, 2024.
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Trump also called for a bill to raise the debt ceiling. The federal government is not expected to reach the debt ceiling until sometime in the spring or winter of 2025, and Trump has indicated that he wants to tackle the issue while Joe Biden was president.
Under the proposal that Biden signed Saturday morning, the federal government will be funded until March 2025. He did not include a provision to raise the debt limit.
The bill included $100 billion in disaster aid, $30 billion for farmers and a one-year extension of the farm bill, provisions that were hotly debated before this week’s vote.
Some of the provisions in the bill earlier in the week were removed, including $100 million for children’s cancer research and an agreement that would transfer the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium from the federal government to the District of Columbia.
