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Congressional leaders announced Wednesday afternoon—just days before their Friday deadline—they found a way to avoid a partial shutdown of the government by coming to an agreement on six of the must-pass spending bills and pushing the deadline for the remaining six to later in March.
In order to allow time to review the deals and for the language to be drafted, lawmakers will vote this week on a short-term continuing resolution to fund the agencies through March 8. Appropriation bills to fund departments such as Defense, Labor-HHS and State will be voted on and enacted before March 22, the statement said.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and others said in the statement they are “in agreement that Congress must work in a bipartisan manner” to fund the government.on X, formerly known as Twitter, after the congressional leaders released their plan.
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