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Joe Biden signs the Continuing Resolution to avoid a government shutdown

The president signed the bill into law at a dinner at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco and urged "House Republicans to stop wasting time on extreme bills."

Joe Biden firma la Resolución Continua para evitar el cierre del Gobierno

Joe Biden,

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Verónica Silveri Pazos

Joe Biden has signed the Continuing Resolution (CR) to avoid a government shutdown. Speaker Michael Johnson´s stopgap spending bill - which the House of Representatives and the Senate had previously approved - was enacted by the president at a dinner at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco, an event attended by several leaders on the occasion of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit ( APEC).

Last night I signed a bill to prevent a government shutdown. It is an important step, but we have more to do. I urge Congress to address our national security and domestic needs, and House Republicans to stop wasting time on extreme bills and deliver on our bipartisan budget agreement.

The Senate (with 87 votes in favor and 11 against) passed the Continuing Resolution without any trouble. With only 10 Republican legislators and one Democrat voting against, Chuck Schumer highlighted the "bipartisan cooperation" that made it possible to carry out a rule similar to the one that cost Kevin McCarthy his Presidency of Congress. In fact, moving forward with the initiative and with the support of the Blue Party congressmen, cost Johnson the members of the Freedom Caucus to knock down an additional spending bill that will have to be taken up after the Thanksgiving break.

Schumer praises Johnson

Schumer stressed to the media that the legislative day left "a very, very good night for the American people." The leader of the Democratic majority in the Upper House also highlighted the help between the two major parties to prevent the Executive from running out of funding and praised Speaker Johnson for resisting pressure from his fellow bench members and leaning on his parliamentary rivals.

Obviously, the Republican-led House needed Democratic votes to avoid a shutdown, and I was glad to see that the Speaker was willing to work with Democrats and resisted the siren calls of the hard right in the House. And if that continues, we can avoid more shutdowns and finish the job of funding the Government.
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