Congress passes short-term deal to stave off shutdown, setting up late-December spending fight [View all]

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Source: Washington Post

By Mike DeBonis December 7 at 6:15 PM

Congress passed a short-term spending bill Thursday, avoiding a partial government shutdown in the coming days but setting up a more heated spending fight later this month.

The measure to extend government funding until Dec. 22 passed the House and Senate by comfortable margins. President Trump indicated he will sign the stopgap deal, averting a partial government shutdown that had been set to take effect at 12:01 Saturday morning.

Congressional leaders of both parties went to the White House Thursday afternoon to begin talks with Trump on a long-term spending pact.

“We’re all here today as a very friendly, well-unified group, well-knit-together group of people,” Trump said at the top of the Oval Office meeting. “We hope that we’re going to make some great progress for our country. I think that will happen, and we’ll appreciate it very much.”

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/congress-set-to-delay-shutdown-setting-up-bigger-spending-fight-later/2017/12/07/6b6712fa-db51-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html

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EDIT: Article updated at link.

Original WaPo headline: House passes spending bill, sending measure to Senate to stave off shutdown