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Barbara Sprunt

Biden signs spending bill that averts government shutdown with 11 hours to spare

The president has signed the stopgap measure passed by Congress to avert a Friday night government shutdown. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

President Biden has signed an interim funding bill to tide federal agencies over until mid-December.

The House passed the measure Friday by a vote of 230-201, with ten Republicans joining all Democrats in voting to keep the government open. The Senate had approved it on Thursday. Government spending power would have ended and required a shutdown on Saturday morning.

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