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US: Spending bill passes in House, heads to Senate as shutdown fear looms
Updated On: 01 October, 2023 10:22 AM IST | Washington DC | ANI
The stopgap bill was cleared by the chamber in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 335-91 vote hours after Speaker Kevin McCarthy rolled out the proposal. One Democrat and 90 Republicans voted against the measure.
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The United States House on Saturday approved a 45-day stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration hours before the midnight funding deadline, The Hill reported.
Notably, the decision is poised to prevent the government from falling off the shutdown cliff, which many lawmakers thought was inevitable after weeks of disagreements within the House GOP conference and between both chambers.
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