{"id":7149,"date":"2024-03-09T03:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/us-government-avoids-shutdown-after-senate-approves-460bn-in-spending\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T03:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T03:25:38","slug":"us-government-avoids-shutdown-after-senate-approves-460bn-in-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/us-government-avoids-shutdown-after-senate-approves-460bn-in-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"US government avoids shutdown after Senate approves $460bn in spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vote gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year<\/p>\n<p>The US government has narrowly avoided a partial shutdown after senators approved a $460bn package of spending bills before a midnight deadline that would have shuttered many key federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate approved the six funding bills, which passed the House on Wednesday in a bipartisan vote of 339-85, on Friday evening, a vote that gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/08\/government-shutdown-averted\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year The US government has narrowly avoided a partial shutdown after senators approved a $460bn package of spending bills before a midnight deadline that would have shuttered many key federal agencies. The Senate approved the six funding bills, which &#8230; <a title=\"US government avoids shutdown after Senate approves $460bn in spending\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/us-government-avoids-shutdown-after-senate-approves-460bn-in-spending\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US government avoids shutdown after Senate approves $460bn in spending\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7149","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\/7149","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=7149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}