Package passed Senate late Friday night by vote of 74-24, narrowly averting shutdown and banning Gaza aid through March 2025
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a $1.2tn budget bill to keep the US government funded through a fiscal year that began six months ago and to avert a partial shutdown, according to a statement released by the White House.
“The bipartisan funding bill I just signed keeps the government open, invests in the American people, and strengthens our economy and national security,” Biden said in the statement.
The bill was passed in the Senate after midnight in a vote that fell 74-24. It came after funding had expired for government agencies, 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.
Why would Republicans stop when it works?
trump shut it down to build a border wall, and the next Dem president now also wants a wall. Either because he’s only saying it to try and get votes from Republicans, or he always wanted it but thought it would cost him votes. The only thing that changes is the Overton window’s march to the right…
The thing is, republicans keep being able to do it, because they keep getting elected.
They keep getting elected, because when we do vote them out, Democrats still don’t fix the system. Which depresses turnout. And with depressed turnout comes republicans in office.
It’s a very obvious cycle, and it’s pretty easy to break out of it:
Elect Dems willing to take action when they have the numbers.
We can’t do that without replacing some incumbents.