{"id":20332,"date":"2023-11-18T02:42:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T08:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=20332"},"modified":"2023-11-18T02:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T08:42:58","slug":"biden-signs-stopgap-spending-bill-to-avert-govt-shutdown-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=20332","title":{"rendered":"Biden signs stopgap spending bill to avert govt shutdown- White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 16 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Joe Biden signed on Thursday a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, a day after the Senate passed it, the White House said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Biden signed the document on the sidelines of a dinner at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco, where leaders are attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate&#8217;s 87-11 vote on Wednesday marked the end of this year&#8217;s third fiscal standoff in Congress that saw lawmakers bring Washington to the brink of defaulting on its more than $31 trillion in debt this spring and twice within days of a partial shutdown that would have interrupted pay for about 4 million federal workers.<br>U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson had produced the stopgap funding bill that drew broad bipartisan support, a rarity in modern U.S. politics. Democrats said they were happy it stuck to spending levels that had been set in a May agreement with Biden and did not include poison-pill provisions on abortion and other hot-button social issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/uss-biden-signs-stopgap-spending-bill-white-house-says-2023-11-17\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 16 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Joe Biden signed on Thursday a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, a day after the Senate passed it, the White House said. Biden signed the document on the sidelines of a dinner at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco, where leaders are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6102,1169,22698,8590,2912,24290],"class_list":["post-20332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-avoid","tag-biden","tag-government-shutdown","tag-signature","tag-spending-bill","tag-stopgap-measure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20334,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332\/revisions\/20334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}