Summary
That’s all the live coverage for today – thanks for tuning in. Some key updates and developments from the day:
The House of Representatives passed a resolution to avoid a government shutdown early evening on Tuesday.
The final vote count was 336 to 95, surpassing the two-thirds majority threshold required for adoption. Nearly all Democrats supported the measure.
Matt Gaetz, the architect of Kevin McCarthy’s downfall as speaker, filed an ethics complaint against him over this morning’s alleged assault on Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett.
The White House said Joe Biden won’t be afraid to take on the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, “where confrontation is needed” during their meeting on Wednesday.
Biden unveiled a $6bn effort to bolster climate resilience across the country as his administration released the government’s fifth annual national climate assessment.
A former fundraiser for Republican congressman George Santos pleaded guilty to a federal charge of wire fraud, which could put him behind bars for more than two years.
Read about the House vote here:
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The final vote count: 336 to 95
A total of 336 representatives voted in favor of the resolution to avert the government shutdown slated for this weekend, while 95 voted against it.
The measure needed a two-thirds majority support to pass. A total of 209 Democrats supported the measure, and two Democrats opposed it – Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts and Mike Quigley of Illinois. NBC News notes that Quigley was the only Democrat to vote against the resolution in September to avoid a shutdown.
On the Republican side, 127 lawmakers voted in favor of the resolution, and 93 voted against it. The House Freedom Caucus, a hard-right group of conservatives, said earlier today that it would not support the resolution, saying in a statement: “It contains no spending reductions, no border security and not a single meaningful win for the American people.” That group includes lawmakers who helped lead the revolt against the previous stopgap measure, a dispute which ended in the ouster of former House speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, has said he supports the measure and is hoping to have a vote soon.
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