Senate Passes Stopgap Funding Bill in 69-28 Vote, Averts Government Shutdown – Here are the Republicans Who Voted with the Dems
The Senate Thursday evening passed the stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown.
The Senate voted 69-28 to pass the interim bill that will fund the government until February 18.
U.S. Senate PASSES CR funding government through February 18, 2022, 69-28.
Goes now to the President.
Current spending authority expires Friday at Midnight ET. pic.twitter.com/y4W6RbmTgn
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Senator Mike Lee held a vote on an amendment to prohibit federal money being used to fund Biden’s vaccine mandates, but it failed 48-50.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped a showdown in the upper chamber by convincing enough Republicans to vote for the stopgap bill without making changes.
