US Congress passes bill to avert shutdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : But Johnson put a positive sheen on events, telling reporters after the House passed the funding package that January, when Trump returns to office, would mark a "sea change" in Washington.
48% : If the funding bill had failed, non-essential government functions would have been put on ice.
47% : That would have meant non-essential operations winding up, with up to 875,000 workers furloughed and as many as 1.4 million more required to work without pay.
46% : Employees in key services like law enforcement would have continued working but would only have been paid once government functions were back up.
45% : Congress's setting of government budgets is always a fraught task, with both chambers closely divided between Republicans and Democrats.
44% : The influence of Musk, the world's richest man, over the Republicans -- and his apparent sway with Trump -- has become a focus for Democratic attack, with questions raised over how an unelected citizen can wield so much power.
35% : "President Trump will return to DC and to the White House, and we will have Republican control of the Senate and the House," Johnson told reporters.
30% : It is essentially the same as a bill that failed miserably in a vote Thursday -- except without a two-year suspension of the country's self-imposed borrowing limit demanded by Trump.
30% : "Trump had been clear that he was willing to see a shutdown if he did not get his way, and the passage of funding legislation without his priorities included demonstrated that even his great influence over Republicans in Congress has limits.

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