Trump signs short-term spending bill just ahead of shutdown deadline
Source: Washington Post
President Trump signed a short-term spending bill Thursday to keep the government open through late December, staving off a shutdown that would have begun at midnight.
Trump’s signature on the stop-gap spending bill came following Senate passage of the legislation on a bipartisan 74-20 vote. The House passed it earlier in the week in the midst of public impeachment hearings.
Without the legislation, government funding would have expired Thursday at midnight, forcing multiple agencies to begin to close down operations and send federal workers home.
The bill extends government funding through Dec. 20, setting up a fight over money for Trump’s border wall that could happen around the same time the House is voting on articles of impeachment against the president. It is the second stopgap spending bill Congress has been forced to pass to keep the lights on in government for the 2020 budget year that began Oct. 1.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/11/21/senate-passes-short-term-spending-bill-sending-legislation-trump-hours-ahead-shutdown-deadline/
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although the House's vote wasn't veto proof... The next time they might not be so lucky. 