After a tumultuous week of rejections, the House approved a stopgap spending bill on Friday evening that moves the government funding deadline to March. The bill is now on its way to the Senate, where senators will rush to vote before a midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown.
The stopgap bill was approved 366-34 with bipartisan support from 196 Democrats and 170 Republicans in Congress. The new proposal includes disaster relief and farm assistance, but does not include the debt ceiling raise suggested by President-elect Donald Trump. It comes after a turbulent week on Capitol Hill that saw two previous versions of the bill fail to secure enough support.
