by ZeroHedge News Staff at ZeroHedge
Update (1150ET): With just hours to go before a shutdown, the House has passed the $1.2 trillion minibus bill, which will now head to the Senate.
The vote was 286-134, with 112 Republicans and 22 Dems against.
All 100 Senators will need to agree to a vote to pass the bill before midnight. If this fails to happen, the government would be forced into a partial shutdown on Saturday morning.
President Biden has urged Congress to pass it quickly so he can sign.
“This hasn’t been a perfect process. But we should never let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in response to the House passage. “This is a good result for the American people.”
The bill funds the departments of Homeland Security, State, Labor, Defense, Health and Human Services, among other things. Combined with the $459 billion bill passed earlier this month, the latest funding packages fully fund the federal government to the tune of $1.659 trillion through September, NBC reports.
House Freedom Caucus member Chip Roy (R-TX) railed against the fact that members only had around 24 hours to review the bill – and attacked his fellow Republicans for failing to secure immigration wins…
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