Threat of US government shutdown ends as senate passes €1.1bn package

has passed a $1.2 trillion dollar package of spending bills in the early hours of Saturday morning, pushing any threat of a government shutdown back to the autumn.

Any successful amendments to the Bill would have sent the legislation back to the House of Representatives, which had already broken up for a two-week recess.Mr Schumer said: “It’s been a very long and difficult day, but we have just reached an agreement to complete the job of funding the government.

The vote tally in the house reflected anger among Republicans over the content of the package and the speed with which it was brought to a vote. Kay Granger, the Republican chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee that helped draft the package, stepped down from that role after the vote. She said she would stay on the committee to provide advice and lead as a teacher for colleagues when needed.

Still, the latest package was clearly unpopular with most Republicans, who viewed it as containing too few of their policy priorities and as spending too much. When combining the two packages, discretionary spending for the budget year will come to about $1.66 trillion. That does not include programmes such as social security and Medicare, or financing the country’s rising debt.Mr Biden, in his statement, again pressed Congress to pass additional aid.

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