US House passes bill to avert shutdown, Senate vote to follow

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : If the bill fails Senate scrutiny, non-essential government functions will be put on ice.
47% : Employees in key services like law enforcement would continue working but would only be paid once government functions are back up.
46% : The American people deserve a government that works for them," senior Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson posted on X. If senators drag their feet, the government will still cease to be funded at midnight, and non-essential operations will start to grind to a halt, with up to 875,000 workers furloughed and 1.4 million more required to work without pay.
45% : Congress's setting of government budgets is always a fraught task, with both chambers closely divided between Republicans and Democrats.
43% : Musk appeared again to be doing his best to marshal conservatives against the deal ahead of the House vote, as he posted: "So is this a Republican bill or a Democrat bill?" The influence of 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.
32% : Trump has been clear that he is willing to see a shutdown if he does not get his way.
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.

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