Senate passes bill to avert government shutdown -- Lee, Crapo, Risch vote 'no'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Senators approved the so-called "continuing resolution" in overwhelming bipartisan fashion, with 87 agreeing to punt final spending negotiations for Fiscal Year 2024 into January while keeping government funding at current levels in the meantime.
55% : President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill before government funding for "nonessential" services expires Friday at midnight.
39% : "We absolutely stand against shutting down the federal government, but we also oppose continually kicking the can down the road on government funding and allowing Democrats' spending levels to continue for another month -- let alone two," said Risch and Crapo, a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, in a statement issued Thursday.
39% : However, Johnson did not include other Freedom Caucus priorities, like spending cuts or border security provisions, because doing so would have made the House's proposal a nonstarter in Congress' upper chamber, allowing the Democrat-led Senate to "jam" House Republicans with a last-minute funding fix, Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, a top House appropriator, told the Deseret News last week.

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