House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) walked away from a last-minute minibus spending bill to avert a government shutdown on his watch with a few cuts and bruises to go with the victory.

Released just after 3 a.m., the $1 trillion, 1,012-page minibus marks the end of a nearly yearlong saga to fund the government. After such a long period of negotiations, Johnson had to settle for accomplishing some of his aims while ceding defeat in others.

Here are Johnson’s wins and losses in the 2024 spending bill.

President Joe Biden has pledged to back a funding deal to avoid a government shutdown.

Congressional negotiators hammered out a deal to complete their final spending bill on Monday night, and aides are now writing the text of a bill to keep the government open.

“We have come to an agreement with congressional leaders on a path forward for the remaining full-year funding bills,” Biden said. “The House and Senate are now working to finalize a package that can quickly be brought to the floor, and I will sign it immediately.”

The Senate passed a six-bill package to fund parts of the federal government through September, narrowly avoiding a partial shutdown. 

The upper chamber voted 75 to 22, sending the bill to President Biden's desk before a midnight deadline. Mr. Biden was expected to sign the bill Saturday. 

Republicans' demands for amendment votes on immigration-related and other measures slowed its passage and threatened to push the final vote to Saturday, after funding lapsed.

US lawmakers have passed a government spending package shortly before a midnight deadline, averting a partial government shutdown.

The Senate passed six bills totalling $459bn (£357bn) which funds nearly 30% of the government.

It faced opposition, however, from some Republicans who argued the measure did not do enough to cut federal spending.

Republicans also wanted the bills to include stronger measures to address immigration at the southern border.

The Senate passed a $460 billion package of spending bills to avert a partial government shutdown ahead of the first funding deadline Friday. 

The package passed as the U.S. national debt has surpassed $34 trillion, a record high.

Lawmakers spent the majority of Friday considering motions related to the slate of bills and debating the package following President Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday night. 

The votes were 75-22 in favor, and the package now goes to Biden for him to sign.

The House on Wednesday passed the first tranche of six annual appropriations bills, averting a partial government shutdown that was set to take effect on Friday.

Why it matters: Unlike the stopgap spending bills Congress has been passing since last fall, these bills keep their respective agencies funded to September.

The six bills were passed in a single package, known as a minibus, in a broadly bipartisan 335-85 vote.

House Republican hardliners are frustrated at Speaker Mike Johnson for once again passing a "clean" short-term federal funding bill to avert a partial government shutdown this week.

"It's just the usual c--p. Swamp is going to swamp, nothing's changing, we're spending more money. We're not changing the bureaucracy," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital. "We're afraid to shut down, we won't use the power of the purse, and the result is a demonstrably weaker America."

The Senate on Thursday passed a short-term spending bill that punts this weekend’s shutdown threat to later in the month, but leaves questions about how Congress will fund the government through the rest of the year.

Senators voted 77-13 to send the funding measure to President Biden’s desk for his signature, just hours after the House voted overwhelmingly to pass the bill 320-99 and just a day before a tranche of government funding was set to expire.

House lawmakers approved a temporary spending bill to prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend, with Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) forced once again to turn to a coalition made up mostly of Democrats to pass it.

The vote was 320 to 99, with slightly more than half of Republicans joining with almost all Democrats to support the measure.

Congressional leaders unveiled a bipartisan plan Wednesday to avert a looming partial government shutdown at midnight Saturday.

Under the deal, lawmakers will work to pass a stop-gap resolution to extend the deadline to properly fund the government to March 8 for six of the 12 necessary spending bills and March 22 for the other six.

“We are in agreement that Congress must work in a bipartisan manner to fund our government,” all four congressional leaders and the four top appropriators said in a joint statement Wednesday evening.