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Senators voted to pass a new version of a temporary spending bill early Saturday morning after a midnight deadline for a partial government shutdown he came and went
The Senate advanced the third version of a short-term spending bill 85 to 11, and will now head to President Biden’s deskwho has already indicated that he will sign it.
An original deal on a short-term spending bill was released earlier this week. with a total of 1,547 pages and includes a number of policy and disaster relief provisions.
But soon after its launch, billionaire Elon Musk and other conservative critics publicly criticized the measure, and it was ultimately condemned by President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.
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Congress passed a short-term spending bill with just hours until the shutdown deadline. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Republicans need to be smart and tough. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then BELIEVE THEIR BLUFF. It’s Schumer and Biden who are withholding aid to our farmers and disaster relief,” Trump and Vance. he said Wednesday afternoon in a lengthy statement opposing the bill.
The initial spending measure would have extended government funding levels for fiscal year 2024 through March 14 and provided more than $100 billion in disaster relief for those affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the South- eastern United States earlier this year. There was also a $10 billion provision for financial assistance to farmers in the bill.
Meanwhile, from Thursday, the US national debt it was at $36,167,604,149,955.61 and continuing to climb rapidly.
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Elon Musk was against the first iteration of the bill. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The size of the bill, along with several of its other provisions, including a cost-of-living increase for lawmakers, drew public backlash from Musk and others.
“Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out within two years!” wrote to X.
After going back to the drawing board, House Republicans emerged Thursday with a new proposal. The revised measure would have extended current funding levels for three months and included a suspension of the debt limit for two years, according to Trump’s request.
It also had economic relief for farmers and about $110 billion in disaster relief.
But the bill failed in the House Thursday night as Democrats united against it and a significant group of Republicans also chose to oppose it.
Johnson stayed to find a new interim bill after Musk’s opposition. (Jean Catuffe/GC Images/Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Old bill: 110BB deficit spend (unpaid), $0 increase on national credit card. New bill: 110BB of deficit spending (unpaid), $4 trillion debt ceiling increase + with $0 in structural reforms for the cuts. read the bill – 1.5 hours I will vote no,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wrote on X before the vote.
Roy was one of 38 House Republicans who opposed the interim bill.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (Reuters)
As of Friday morning, there appeared to be no agreement between Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work together on a new bill. Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said the government would go into a partial shutdown at midnight if Republicans weren’t going back to the original bill.
“I am prepared to stay here through Christmas because we will not let Elon Musk run the government,” Murray said in a statement.
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The Democrats did not get their wish, which was to return to the original bill. (Reuters)
Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor that the original bill would pass the House if Speaker Mike Johnson brought it up for a vote.
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The third measure, which eventually passed the House and Senate, was similar to the one that failed the night before. The bill included financial aid for farmers and disaster relief for those affected by the recent storms. However, the final bill did not include a debt ceiling suspension, which Trump himself had called for.
The House passed the short-term spending bill with 366 votes in favor, exceeding the two-thirds required.
