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2023.09.27 07:11 GMT+8

U.S. Senate votes to advance stopgap bill to avert government shutdown

Updated 2023.09.27 10:52 GMT+8
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The White House is seen in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 27, 2022. /Reuters

The Senate voted 77 to 19 on Tuesday to advance a short-term funding measure to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week.

The Senate stopgap bill, which would fund the government through November 17, includes around $6 billion for domestic disaster responses and another roughly $6 billion in aid for Ukraine.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives, however, planned to push along with its own partisan bill that was unlikely to win support in the Democratic-majority Senate.

The split between the two chambers suggested the federal government was increasingly likely to enter its fourth shutdown in a decade on Sunday.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will be furloughed and a wide range of services, from economic data releases to nutrition benefits, will be suspended beginning on Sunday if the two sides do not reach agreement. 

(With input from agencies)

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