A partial shutdown would have started this weekend if Congress had failed to actCongress passed legislation Thursday to prevent a looming partial government shutdown, extending funding for federal agencies later into March - and teeing up another mad scramble over policy and spending negotiations with another shutdown deadline only about a week away. The stopgap spending bill - known as a continuing resolution, or CR - cleared the Senate by a 77-13 vote Thursday evening after winning House approval by a 320-99 margin in the afternoon. The legislation pushes the funding deadline to March 8 for several agencies, including the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Energy, Agriculture, Interior, and Housing and Urban Development, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency. Financing for most of those agencies was set to expire Saturday just after midnight. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/29/government-shutdown-deal-vote-cr/

Source: Washington Post March 01, 2024 10:27 UTC