Package passed Senate late Friday night by vote of 74-24, narrowly averting shutdown and banning Gaza aid through March 2025
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a $1.2tn budget bill to keep the US government funded through a fiscal year that began six months ago and to avert a partial shutdown, according to a statement released by the White House.
“The bipartisan funding bill I just signed keeps the government open, invests in the American people, and strengthens our economy and national security,” Biden said in the statement.
The bill was passed in the Senate after midnight in a vote that fell 74-24. It came after funding had expired for government agencies, but the White House sent out a notice shortly after the deadline announcing the Office of Management and Budget had ceased shutdown preparations because there was a high degree of confidence that Congress would pass the legislation and the president would sign it on Saturday.
Well, let’s be fair to Biden, Congress was supposed to have already given him the TikTok ban he also said he’d sign right away, and that would have shut up a lot of the people who complain about his support for an ongoing genocide
What?
You think if Biden banned TikTok it would make up for funding a genocide and refusing to help the victims?
Oh no, pretty much nothing they’re doing is anything I want out of my government, I’m just saying that I think that their preferred strategy for dealing with critics of their policies would have been to shut down the social media those critics are most likely to use and it’s left then a bit out of sorts not having the power to do that handed to them by Congress yet