President Joe Biden signed a $1.7 trillion funding bill on Thursday that will keep the government running until the end of the federal fiscal year in September 2023.
Biden had until late Friday to sign the package in order to avert a partial government shutdown.
The vast omnibus bill, which totaled over 4,000 pages, was preceded by a series of three short-term funding measures adopted since September to forestall shutdowns while party leaders negotiated a larger package, which resulted in the omnibus bill.
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed the $1.7 trillion omnibus package 225–201 on Dec. 23, one day after a bipartisan Senate vote, with significantly more Republican support, sent the bill to the lower chamber….