U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom via the North Dakota Monitor)
(. North Dakota Monitor) – The U.S. Senate cleared a stopgap spending bill that will fund the government through the end of September, sending the legislation to President Donald Trump.
The White House said that Trump had signed the measure, avoiding a partial government shutdown.
Trump’s signature, a day after the 54-46 Senate vote, will keep the federal government mostly running on autopilot under spending levels and policy similar to what Congress approved about a year ago when lawmakers passed the full-year appropriations bills for the last fiscal year. But the stopgap bill does slightly boost defense spending while reducing domestic funding authority.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was the only Republican to vote against passage. Maine independent Sen. Angus King and New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen voted to approve the bill, the only ones backing it besides Republican
