{"id":11886,"date":"2024-12-21T21:17:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/biden-signs-the-funding-bill-adverting-a-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T21:17:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:47:43","slug":"biden-signs-the-funding-bill-adverting-a-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/biden-signs-the-funding-bill-adverting-a-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden signs the funding bill, adverting a government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5095992.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The package funds the government at current levels through March 14 and includes $100 billion in disaster aid and a one-year farm bill. It did not include a debt limit extension demanded by President-elect Donald Trump, local US media reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Senate passed the funding bill overnight on Saturday, shortly after the House passed the bill. The Senate vote was 85-11, and the House vote was 366-34.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said in a statement that the bill had been signed, but Biden has not yet weighed in publicly after the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden supported the legislation that ultimately passed Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it does not include everything we sought, it includes disaster relief that the President requested for the communities recovering from the storm, eliminates the accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires, and would ensure that the government can continue to operate at full capacity,\u201d Jean-Pierre said in Friday\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s signing caps off a chaotic few days that began when Trump and his ally Elon Musk publicly opposed the initial bipartisan deal, effectively killing it.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/225807\/Biden-signs-the-funding-bill-adverting-a-government-shutdown\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The package funds the government at current levels through March 14 and includes $100 billion in disaster aid and a one-year farm bill. It did not include a debt limit extension demanded by President-elect Donald Trump, local US media reported.\u00a0 The Senate passed the funding bill overnight on Saturday, shortly after the House passed the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}