INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Congress passed a stopgap funding bill late on Saturday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
backed down from an earlier demand by his party&s hardliners for a partisan bill.The Democratic-majority Senate voted 88-9 to pass the
measure to avoid the federal government&s fourth partial shutdown in a decade, sending the bill to President Joe Biden, who signed it into
deadline.McCarthy abandoned party hardliners& insistence that any bill pass the House with only Republican votes, a change that could cause
one of his far-right members to try to oust him from his leadership role.The House voted 335-91 to fund the government through Nov
17, with more Democrats than Republicans supporting it.That move marked a profound shift from earlier in the week, when a shutdown looked
A shutdown would mean that most of the government&s 4 million employees would not get paid & whether they were working or not & and also
would shutter a range of federal services, from National Parks to financial regulators.Federal agencies had already drawn up detailed plans
that spell out what services would continue, such as airport screening and border patrols, and what must shut down, including scientific
research and nutrition aid to 7 million poor mothers.&The American people can breathe a sigh of relief: there will be no government shutdown
tonight,& Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said after the vote
&Democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship, and we are glad Speaker McCarthy has
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