{"id":1078376,"date":"2021-12-02T21:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078376"},"modified":"2021-12-02T21:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:43:37","slug":"government-shutdown-averted-after-senate-passes-short-term-funding-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-shutdown-averted-after-senate-passes-short-term-funding-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdown Averted After Senate Passes Short-Term Funding Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgovernment-shutdown-averted-after-senate-passes-short-term-funding-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078376&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Senate late Thursday cleared a stopgap bill to fund the government through mid-February, after an 11th-hour agreement led a pocket of conservative Republicans who were prepared to force a shutdown to allow for the measure\u2019s expedited passage.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which funds the government through Feb. 18, sailed through the chamber 69-28, above the 60 votes needed for passage. It <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/02\/house-passes-short-term-funding-bill-with-shutdown-one-day-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed the House<\/a> hours earlier on a 221-212 vote that saw just one member, Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, crossed party lines while several of his GOP colleagues forcefully advocated for a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The stopgap measure, which largely continues current funding levels and includes an additional $7 billion to aid Afghan evacuees, now heads to President Joe Biden\u2019s desk with just over a day before a shutdown is set to begin.<\/p>\n<p>While the bill, known as a continuing resolution, went from being introduced in the House to passed by the Senate in less than a day, its fate was uncertain much of Thursday as three Republican senators \u2014 Mike Lee of Utah, Roger Marshall of Kansas and Ted Cruz of Texas \u2014 vowed to use procedural tactics to shut down the government for as long as a week unless they received a standalone vote on whether to strip funding for President Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine and testing mandate for Americans in the private sector. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/01\/republican-objections-to-bidens-vaccine-mandate-could-force-weeklong-government-shutdown-chuck-schumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Republican Objections To Biden\u2019s Vaccine Mandate Could Force Weeklong Government Shutdown)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7331058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7331058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Mike Lee in the Capitol Thursday. He insisted on a vote on his amendment that would have stripped funding for President Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine and testing mandates. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Their push, however, frustrated Senate leadership in both parties who aggressively warned against a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear: If there is a shutdown, it will be a Republican, anti-vaccine shutdown,\u201d Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor Thursday morning. \u201cI hope cooler heads will prevail on the other side so we can keep the government funded before tomorrow\u2019s deadline,\u201d he later added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/02\/rosa-delauro-house-appropriations-congress-deal-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Congress Reaches Deal On Stopgap Funding Bill As Shutdown Looms)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did not put any blame on his caucus, but like Schumer urged his colleagues to not force a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to shut the government down,\u201d the Republican leader said. \u201cThat makes no sense for anyone. Almost no one on either side thinks it\u2019s a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the House passed the bill, Schumer announced that the standalone vote that the handful of Republicans had insisted upon would occur. Though it required just a simple majority to be adopted, it failed 48-50 on party lines.<\/p>\n<p>While most Democrats and Republicans alike praised the stopgap bill \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/house-passes-funding-bill-clearing-way-keep-government-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second Congress passed<\/a> in just over two months \u2014 for staving off a shutdown, top members of both parties expressed the need to come together and agree on a broader funding bill for the rest of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo months into the fiscal year, we appear no closer to getting an agreement on full-year appropriations bills,\u201d Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said on the floor ahead of the vote. \u201cWe\u2019re buying time to complete these negotiations. It\u2019s not a matter of whether or not we should. We have to,\u201d he later added.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate late Thursday cleared a stopgap bill to fund the government through mid-February, after an 11th-hour agreement led a pocket of conservative Republicans who were prepared to force a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}