Congress managed to stop a government shutdown with just hours to spare on Saturday, with the Senate giving final approval to a temporary spending bill sent over by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy with the help of Democratic votes.
The “clear” stopgap bill headed to President Biden’s desk hours before a midnight shutdown deadline, ending a week of high drama on Capitol Hill.
The legislation included $16 billion in disaster aid but not the extra funding for Ukraine that President Biden and Democrats wanted. Faced with a choice of funding the U.S. government or Ukraine, Democrats in the House and Senate overwhelmingly picked the U.S. A faction of hardline conservatives in the House Republican Conference vowed to break that stopgap-omnibus pattern and opposed any temporary spending, including Mr. McCarthy’s legislation that would have slashed spending levels and included tougher immigration and border security provisions.
If Congress cannot pass full-year appropriations bills by the end of the 45-day overtime period, Washington will once again face a shutdown scramble. Mr. Paul, Kentucky Republican, intended to delay the vote until Monday but opted to allow Mr. McCarthy’s bill to be fast-tracked in the upper chamber. Mr. McCarthy then bucked the arch-conservatives and brought the clean bill to the floor, saying he had exhausted all options in his conference and turned to Democrats for help.Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of California criticized the lack of Ukraine money in the bill that her party nevertheless would unanimously support, declaring: “We don’t abandon our allies.”
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