Senate passes bill to avoid government shutdown

Catherine Garcia, The Week US's avatar
By
published
Mitch McConnell.
(Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The Senate on Wednesday night passed a stopgap spending bill that keeps the government open through Feb. 8, averting a shutdown at midnight Friday.

The bill does not give President Trump any of the money he has been demanding for his border wall. The measure is expected to pass the House on Thursday. Without the bill, funding will lapse for nine federal departments at the end of the week.

The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up
Catherine Garcia, The Week US
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.