The United States Senate has passed a stop-gap piece of spending legislation meant to tide the congressional members of both Houses of Congress for another week, as they seek to hammer out details of a second set of appropriations bills in March.
via ABC News:
The final vote tally was 77-13. The measure now heads to the president’s desk.[…]
The new funding deadlines for the government spending bills are now March 8 and March 22.Congress will now return next week to finish working on the first tranche of six funding bills that are due by March 8.
As we wrote earlier on Thursday, the House passed a similar bill by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, with the aid of Democrats in the lower chamber, by a tally of 320-99 :
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Voting against the bill were these Republicans:
GOP Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Mike…
