A government shutdown was averted after the Senate passed the House funding bill

WASHINGTON is the president Joe Biden signed the bill on state funding on Saturday, which prevented a government shutdown and marked the end of a chaotic, high-stakes week in Congress.

The White House the statement said that the bill was signed. Biden made no public statements after 11 hours of negotiations in Congress that led to the US Senate’s approval of bipartisan federal expense invoice.

“While it does not include everything we were looking for … President Biden supports moving this legislation forward,” White House press secretary Karin Jean-Pierre said Friday.

The bill allows continued federal government funding at current levels for three months and provides additional disaster relief and farm assistance.

The House overwhelmingly approved the measure Friday night, 366-34, with the support of all Democrats and more than three-quarters of Republicans.

In the Senate, the bill passed by a vote of 85 to 11 shortly after midnight. Of those who did not vote, Republicans gave 10 and one came from a senator. Bernie Sanders from Vermont, an independent candidate running in the caucus with the Democrats.

The strong support for the temporary funding bill reflects a bipartisan desire to avoid a costly shutdown that could have jeopardized the paychecks of hundreds of thousands of federal workers in the days before Christmas.

The dramatic vote in both the House and Senate ended days of chaos on Capitol Hill as House Speaker Mike Johnson, a resident, tried and failed to meet the president-elect’s demands. Donald Trump.

Trump and his billionaire campaign donor Elon Musk, Tesla The CEO denounced the original agreed funding plan on Wednesday, harshly criticizing its provisions, prompting Republicans to spend most of Thursday seeking replacement.

In particular, Trump has insisted that any deal to keep the government open must include a two-year suspension of the US debt limit. The cap is the maximum the federal government can borrow to pay for its spending.

The debt ceiling is a recurring, heated debate in Washington every few years, and the minority political party usually has a lot of leverage. Trump appears eager to avoid that fight as he begins his second term in office.

But allowing the US to borrow more money is a bridge too far for many hardline conservative Republicans.

That much was evident on Thursday accountwhich contained net government funding and raising the debt limit was soundly defeated. Nearly every Democrat was joined by 38 rank-and-file Republicans who voted against it it, after them the party leader publicly supported the deal.

Like Thursday’s failed vote, Friday’s passage — without raising Trump’s debt limit — served as a reminder to the president-elect of how difficult it is to control the notoriously capricious House Republicans.