SAN FRANCISCO – President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a temporary spending bill an afternoon prior to a possible government shutdown, pushing a fight with congressional Republicans over the federal budget into the new year, as wartime help for Ukraine and Israel stays stalled.
The measure handed the House and Senate via huge bipartisan margins this week, making sure the government stays open till after the vacation season, and doubtlessly giving lawmakers extra time to type out their really extensive variations over government spending ranges for the present fiscal year. Biden signed the bill in San Francisco, the place he’s webhosting the summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation economies.
News of the signing got here past due at night time. The president signed the bill on the Legion of Honor Museum, the place he held a dinner for APEC individuals.
The spending bundle helps to keep government investment at present ranges for kind of two extra months whilst a long-term bundle is negotiated. It splits the deadlines for passing full-year appropriations expenses into two dates: Jan. 19 for some federal businesses and Feb. 2 for others, developing two dates when there might be a possibility of a partial government shutdown.
The two-step manner used to be championed via new House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, and used to be no longer preferred via many within the Senate, despite the fact that all however one Democrat and 10 Republicans supported it as it ensured the government would no longer close down for now.
Johnson has vowed that he’ll no longer give a boost to any more stopgap investment measures, referred to as proceeding resolutions. He portrayed the temporary investment bill as surroundings the bottom for a spending “fight” with the Senate subsequent year.
The spending bill does no longer come with the White House’s nearly $106 billion request for wartime help for Israel and Ukraine. Nor does it supply humanitarian investment for Palestinians and different supplemental requests, together with cash for border safety. Lawmakers are prone to flip their consideration extra absolutely to that request after the Thanksgiving vacation in hopes of negotiating a deal.
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AP writers Stephen Groves and Zeke Miller contributed from Washington.