Schumer: Senate will vote on short-term spending bill Thursday to avert shutdown

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Democrats and Republicans have reached an agreement on a stopgap bill that will keep the government funded through the beginning of December, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced on Wednesday night.

"We have an agreement on the CR — the continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown — and we should be voting on that tomorrow morning," Schumer said. Government funding is set to expire at midnight Thursday, and this short-term spending bill — which includes emergency funding for natural disaster relief and Afghan refugee resettlement — will avert the shutdown of federal agencies and operations on Friday morning.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.