President Joe Biden signed a spending bill late Saturday night after a last-ditch bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown.

<div class="block">President Joe Biden signed a spending bill late Saturday night after a last-ditch bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown.</div>

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Federal Government Narrowly Avoids Shutdown

The federal government narrowly narrowly avoided a government shutdown over the weekend, President Biden signed the 45 day spending bill into law late Saturday night to keep the government open until November 17th. The house first passed the bill Saturday afternoon after House Speaker Kevin mccarthy dropped far right. Republicans demands for spending cuts. Democrats broadly supported the bill while 90 Republicans voted against it. The senate voted late Saturday night in favor of the bill by a vote of 88 to 9. After signing the bill, President Biden called on Congress to pass Ukraine aid which was removed from the short term measure and called out far right. Members of the Republican Party this fall, the extremists once again have brought us to the brink this time to a government shutdown and going back on the deal they made months ago, not keeping their word enough. Is enough, is enough. This is not that complicated. The brinkmanship has to end the short term package gives Congress seven weeks to work out a compromise budget for fiscal year 2024 which began yesterday.