WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress shipped a temporary government-wide funding bill to President Donald Trump on Friday, averting a government shutdown at midnight and buying time for on-again, off-again talks on COVID-19 relief.
The bill, which sets a new shutdown deadline of midnight next Friday, passed the Senate by a unanimous voice vote Senate vote that came without much drama despite and sent rank-and-file senators home for the weekend with no clear picture of what awaits next week.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign the bill.
