{"id":25179,"date":"2024-03-23T03:41:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25179"},"modified":"2024-03-23T03:41:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:41:36","slug":"us-senate-passes-1-2tn-spending-package-to-avert-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25179","title":{"rendered":"US Senate passes $1.2tn spending package to avert government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Vote of 74-24 came after Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer announced a breakthrough shortly before midnight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Senate has passed a $1.2tn package of spending bills, a long overdue action nearly six months into the budget year that will push any threats of a government shutdown to the fall. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.<br><br>The vote was 74-24. It came after funding had expired for government agencies at midnight, but the White House sent out a notice shortly after the deadline announcing the Office of Management and Budget had ceased shutdown preparations because there was a high degree of confidence that Congress would pass the legislation and the president would sign it on Saturday.<br><br>\u201cBecause obligations of federal funds are incurred and tracked on a daily basis, agencies will not shut down and may continue their normal operations,\u201d the White House statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/23\/us-senate-passes-spending-package-avoid-government-shutdown\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote of 74-24 came after Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer announced a breakthrough shortly before midnight The Senate has passed a $1.2tn package of spending bills, a long overdue action nearly six months into the budget year that will push any threats of a government shutdown to the fall. The bill now goes to President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27342,27340,9332,27341,4461],"class_list":["post-25179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-1-2-trillion","tag-averted","tag-passed","tag-spending-plan","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179","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=25179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25181,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179\/revisions\/25181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}