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Biden Signs CR To Avoid Shutdown, As Lawmakers Ready Six Spending Bills For Next Week

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, March 1st, 2024

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Biden Signs CR To Avoid Shutdown, As Lawmakers Ready Six Spending Bills For Next Week

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

President Biden on Friday signed a stopgap funding measure to avoid a partial government shutdown, allowing lawmakers additional time to complete work on final fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills. The continuing resolution (CR) extension pushes back the two funding deadlines to March 8 and March 22, and arrives following congressional leaders’ announcement earlier in the week of a bipartisan agreement on a framework for six of the 12 fiscal year 2024 spending bills. “I am really glad that we have…

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