The House approved a set of long-awaited foreign aid bills on Saturday that would send funds to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region after months of it being stalled by Republican infighting.

Passage of the bills also could cost Speaker Mike Johnson his leadership position and status as second in line to the presidency.

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. 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is attempting to remove fellow Republican Speaker Mike Johnson after the GOP-led House on Friday morning passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more Democrat than GOP votes.

The bill was to avert a government shutdown before midnight, and the measure now heads to the Democrat-led Senate. 

Greene, the conservative firebrand, filed what is know as a motion to vacate, which will set up a vote on whether Johnson, just several month on the job, should be removed.

The new spending bill Congress is rushing to complete would prevent the State Department from flying gay rights or other politically charged flags at any facilities, including U.S. embassies.

Tucked inside the 1,012-page bill, which funds most government operations, is a provision limiting the department only to flying flags of the U.S. and its states, tribes and territories; official government agencies; foreign nations; and POW/MIA or hostage banners.

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.

House conservatives on Thursday said Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was considering pulling out of an agreement on government spending with Senate Majority Chuck Schumer, just days after the men announced the deal.