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Had to say. Just moments ago on the house floor, we passed by overwhelming numbers the ability to keep government open for the next six weeks. Youve got to understand why we are here. The senate has produced not one Appropriation Bill through the floor. The house . More than 70 . Discretionary spending has now passed. I do not believe our troops need to be punished for us not getting the work done. So i ask congress will stay in session the next two weeks, continue to work to get this done. Lets take a closer look at whats in the stopgap measure. The bill keeps the governments funding at 2023 levels, but only for now. It also freezes the us s aid to ukraine. Democrats had originally tried to plug this gap with a 6 billion aid package, but that measure was removed from the resolution in order to secure the votes needed to pass it. All of this only lasts for 45 days, so the us could be back at the same cliff edge in just over six weeks time. A shutdown would leave hundreds of thousands o

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