The US government avoided the risk of a last-minute shutdown

The US government finally avoided the risk of a shutdown on March 1, when the US Senate on February 29, dominated by Democrats, passed a bill to prevent this.
This budget bill passed the Senate with a bipartisan vote of 77/13 and was immediately sent to President Joe Biden's desk to be signed into law.

The bill would set a deadline for funding part of the government by March 8 and the remaining part by March 22.

"I am pleased to inform the American people that there will not be a government shutdown on March 1. When we pass this bill, we will avoid a shutdown with all its harmful effects on American people," Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer happily announced

Meanwhile, the bill to provide temporary budget so that the government can continue to operate in the near future was also passed with a large margin of 320/99, including 207 votes in favor from the parties. Democrats and 113 votes in favor from Republicans.

This gives congressional negotiators a little more time to work out details on appropriations bills, according to an agreement that House Speaker Mike Johnson reached with Senate Democrats. House and House of Representatives

However, the fact that Mr. Johnson relied on a procedural move requiring Democrats to provide the majority of support to pass a temporary spending bill angered hard-liners. According to experts, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives may face even more difficulties when he has to pass 6 budget allocation bills for the whole year next week and another thorny issue is aid to Ukraine.