President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a temporary spending bill a day earlier than a possible authorities shutdown, pushing a struggle with congressional Republicans over the federal finances into the brand new 12 months, as wartime support for Ukraine and Israel stays stalled.
The measure handed the Home and Senate by broad bipartisan margins this week, making certain the federal government stays open till after the vacation season, and doubtlessly giving lawmakers extra time to kind out their appreciable variations over authorities spending ranges for the present fiscal 12 months. Biden signed the invoice in San Francisco, the place he’s internet hosting the summit of Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation economies.
Information of the signing got here late at night time. The president signed the invoice on the Legion of Honor Museum, the place he held a dinner for APEC members.
The spending package deal retains authorities funding at present ranges for roughly two extra months whereas a long-term package deal is negotiated. It splits the deadlines for passing full-year appropriations payments into two dates: Jan. 19 for some federal companies and Feb. 2 for others, creating two dates when there might be a danger of a partial authorities shutdown.
The 2-step method was championed by new Home Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, and was not favored by many within the Senate, although all however one Democrat and 10 Republicans supported it as a result of it ensured the federal government wouldn’t shut down for now.
Johnson has vowed that he won’t assist any additional stopgap funding measures, often known as persevering with resolutions. He portrayed the momentary funding invoice as setting the bottom for a spending “fight” with the Senate subsequent 12 months.
The spending invoice doesn’t embody the White House’s nearly $106 billion request for wartime support for Israel and Ukraine. Nor does it present humanitarian funding for Palestinians and different supplemental requests, together with cash for border safety. Lawmakers are more likely to flip their consideration extra totally to that request after the Thanksgiving vacation in hopes of negotiating a deal.
