The bill's passage comes after President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk scuttled an earlier bipartisan deal.
What's NewThe U.S. Senate passed an eleventh-hour funding bill to keep the government operating shortly before a midnight deadline on Friday. The vote was 85 to 11.Why It MattersThe bill's passage comes after President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk scuttled an earlier bipartisan continuing resolution in the House of Representatives aimed at averting a government shutdown.
''Shutting down' the government is infinitely better than passing a horrible bill,' Musk wrote in an X post.They called to increase the debt ceiling, saying that while it's 'not great,' they would rather see it happen 'on Biden's watch,' referring to outgoing President Joe Biden.The development sent House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican members scrambling to come up with a new proposal and baffled senators on both sides of the aisle.
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