House strikes deal to avoid a government shutdown one day before deadline

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1. House, Senate leaders announce government funding deal as they race to avert shutdown

Source: Washington Post

House, Senate leaders announce government funding deal as they race to avert shutdown

By Tony Romm
Today at 9:22 a.m. EST

House and Senate leaders on Thursday announced they had reached a deal on a bill to fund the government into mid-February, opening the door for lawmakers to narrowly avoid a shutdown this weekend.

The agreement on a new stopgap spending measure paves the way for the House to vote before the end of the day, though swift action still seemed uncertain in the Senate, where some Republicans have threatened to grind the government to a halt as they protest President Biden’s vaccine and testing mandates.

Both chambers must pass identical bills by midnight on Friday to avert a shutdown, an outcome lawmakers have described as catastrophic at a time when the country is responding to a new, potentially more dangerous variant of the coronavirus.

The new funding proposal, known as a continuing resolution, covers federal operations into February 18 — at which point lawmakers either must adopt another short-term deal or complete their work on roughly a dozen longer-term appropriations bills that fund the government for the remainder of the 2022 fiscal year.

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