Biden Signs Stopgap Bill Pushing Shutdown Deadlines to March
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President Joe Biden signed a stopgap spending measure that will keep federal departments and agencies open into March, averting a partial shutdown that was set to begin Saturday.
The legislation – the third so-called continuing resolution in four months – extends funding for all government agencies until March 1. At that point, noncritical operations at the Transportation Department, the Energy Department, the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration, and Veterans Affairs and military construction would be shut down, with the rest of the federal government following on March 8.