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The House passed a stopgap package Friday evening that pushes the government funding deadline to March, as Congress races to avoid a looming deadline that would shut down the government in six hours.
The package passed 366-34, with the support of 196 Democrats and 170 Republicans. It now moves to the Senate, where leaders are hoping to lock in an agreement to fast-track final passage of the measure, racing against the midnight government shutdown deadline.
The package’s passage seemingly ends a chaotic 48 hours, after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump worked to spike a previously-negotiated bipartisan funding agreement. The package that passed the House includes more than $110 billion in disaster aid and a one year farm bill extension but is stripped of Trump’s demand: a debt limit extension.
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