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Barbara Sprunt

Biden signs a $1.2 trillion funding package, averting a partial government shutdown

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. The Senate voted in the very early hours Saturday morning on the final six appropriations bills. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

President Biden signed a $1.2 trillion funding package that the Senate approved in the early hours Saturday morning to prevent a partial government shutdown. The House passed the bills on Friday.

The package, approved on a Senate vote of 74-24, funds the federal government until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

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