{"id":1741,"date":"2024-01-18T23:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T23:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/us-congress-passes-stopgap-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T23:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T23:20:06","slug":"us-congress-passes-stopgap-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/us-congress-passes-stopgap-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress passes stopgap bill to avert government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House approves bill in vote of 314 to 108 after bipartisan deal, sending legislation to Biden\u2019s desk<\/p>\n<p>The House passed a short-term spending bill on Thursday, sending the legislation to Joe Biden\u2019s desk with just two days left before government funding runs out.<\/p>\n<p>The House approved the bill in a vote of 314 to 108, with<strong> <\/strong>107<strong> <\/strong>Republicans and<strong> <\/strong>207 Democrats supporting the proposal. The House speaker, Republican Mike Johnson, took up the bill under suspension of the rules, so he needed two-thirds of the chamber to support the legislation to get it passed. In a potentially worrisome sign for Johnson, 106 Republicans opposed the bill as hard-right members of the conference called for steeper spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/18\/senate-passes-stopgap-bill-prevent-government-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House approves bill in vote of 314 to 108 after bipartisan deal, sending legislation to Biden\u2019s desk The House passed a short-term spending bill on Thursday, sending the legislation to Joe Biden\u2019s desk with just two days left before government funding runs out. The House approved the bill in a vote of 314 to 108, &#8230; <a title=\"US Congress passes stopgap bill to avert government shutdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/us-congress-passes-stopgap-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Congress passes stopgap bill to avert government shutdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}