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The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill two hours after the shutdown deadline last night, effectively averting a partial government shutdown.

The Details: The 1,012-page bill passed in a 74-24 vote and will now go to President Biden’s desk for signing. Its passage will fully fund the government until the September 30, 2024 deadline. While Republicans didn’t get all the spending cuts they wanted, a key concession they got from Democrats was a continued blocking of funding to the controversial Gaza-based United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

For Context: The bill was unveiled very early Thursday. On Friday, the House passed the bill in a 286-134 vote. The Senate’s approval ends an intense months-long negotiation between Democrats and Republicans. Several stopgap measures have been passed in lieu of a final agreement since the previous September 30 deadline.

Republican Criticisms: Many Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who filed a motion to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson, have criticized the bill. Among Republican concerns are that the bill was unveiled in a last-minute fashion that made it difficult to read through before Friday, and the allocation of budget to certain projects regarding matters like immigration.

How The Media Covered It: Fox News (Right bias) promptly described the bill as “controversial” and noted the “brief partial government shutdown.” The Hill (Center bias) noted that the bill was passed shortly after the deadline. CNN (Lean Left bias) did not include this context.

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The Senate passed a government funding package early Saturday morning, averting a partial shutdown and ending a lengthy fight that has loomed over both sides of Capitol Hill for months.

The legislation will next be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law, which he’s expected to do Saturday.

The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense months-long spending fight. 

The chamber approved the mammoth package, which spans more than a thousand pages, in a 74-24 vote, sending the bill to President Biden’s desk for his signature. The final vote came around 2 a.m., two hours after the shutdown deadline.

The House passed the legislation in a bipartisan, 286-134 vote earlier on Friday.

The Senate passed a controversial six-bill government funding package on Saturday after a brief partial government shutdown. 

Senators voted in favor of passing the $1.2 trillion spending package by a vote of 74-24. The text for the group of bills was only unveiled in the early hours of Thursday morning, angering several Republicans in the upper chamber. 

The appropriations measures were considered in the House on Friday morning, ultimately passing by a vote of 286–134, with a majority of Republicans, 112, voting against them.