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Richard Sharrocks/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Congress narrowly averted a partial government shutdown, buying a few extra weeks to try to work out an agreement on a set of bills that will fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year. After several days of nail biting over Friday s looming deadline, which would have seen four of 12 government funding bills expiring, both chambers passed the short-term funding bill allowing them to get out of town as another snowstorm barrels toward the East Coast. The funding solution now goes to President Joe Biden s desk. The legislation expands the funding expiration date for the four government funding bills set to expire on Friday to March 1. The other eight bills, which were set to run out of funding on Feb. 2, will now run out of funds on March 8. "Avoiding a shutdown is very good news for the country, for our veterans, for parents and children, and for farmers and small businesses, all of whom would have felt the sting of the go

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