Senate Approves U.S. Spending Bill Overwhelmingly

The Senate overwhelmingly gave final approval early Saturday to a $1.2 trillion spending bill to fund more than half of the government, effectively averting a shutdown by sending the legislation to President Biden’s desk just hours after a midnight deadline, Catie Edmondson reported for The New York Times.

The Senate action came more than 12 hours after the House vote. I Photo: Oliver Contreras, The White House Flickr

The 74-to-24 vote, which concluded about 2 a.m., capped an extraordinary day on Capitol Hill that began with a big bipartisan vote to speed the measure through the House, which set off a conservative revolt and prompted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to threaten a bid to oust Speaker Mike Johnson from his post.

The Senate action came more than 12 hours after the House vote, after intense haggling to arrange a series of politically charged votes on proposed changes to the legislation that Republicans had demanded, threatening to push the government into a brief partial shutdown into the weekend.

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