This afternoon . Reporter well, jim, President Biden said it is time for congress to get to work to avoid repeating this down to the wire talks that happened and ended yesterday as the house and senate both passed a bill to avert a Government Shutdown. But what the president has been pushing for them to do over the past few weeks and Going Forward is for House Republicans to adhere to the agreement that the white house had reached with House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy back in the spring during the debt ceiling fight. During that time, they had reached some agreements about what spending and budget levels should be in place and they had hoped that this was to avert a shutdown. But you had heard some House Republicans, the hardliners in the house really push for further spending cuts. And that is where the House Speaker ran into some issues between these two sides. But the president also lamented, the brinksmanship occurring between lawmakers up on capitol hill saying that American People ar
Sides. Lets cross over now to nbc News White House reporter monica alba to get the very latest. But, in just a moment, we will also get an update from ali vitali as well. Monica, i will start with you. Do we know what the white house is thinking at the moment . Are they waiting, obviously, for this bill to make its way to the president for signature . Exactly, ayman. As soon as it is able to send over to the white house, we are expecting the president to sign this, before midnight, ideally, sometimes, as ali now as well, it can take a bit of a while to do all of the logistics to make sure it is already for the president s signature. But that is the plan. In effect, averting this government shut down pretty close to the deadline. We are journalists. So, we are used to getting close to the wire here. But this is about as close as you can get. And i have to tell, you my conversation with white house officials all day today. They were fully and bracing for the government to shut down. They
In washington. A Government Shutdown averted last night literally in the 11th hour. President biden signing a bipartisan Stopgap Funding Bill just an hour before the midnight deadline for it we are expected to hear from the president , from the white house any moment now. We are going to take his arm remarks wider for you. Mr. Biden to address the house and senate the 40 day continuing resolution and a rare saturday vote. So come november 17, lets do it again. Hello everybody welcome to fox news like i am martha neville. Eric do we really want to do it again . Hello everyone i am eric shawn bring House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy he did strike that last minute deal the democrats to get the bill to the house it. But man oh man thats getting him into a heap of trouble he faces a rebellion from gop hardliners. They wanted steeper cuts and money for Border Security. Matt gaetz says hes going to file a motion this week to strip this speaker of his gavel and kick him out of his job. Arthel Vision
Passed a Stopgap Funding Bill that would temporarily keep the government open for 45 days, if signed by president biden. This comes just hours before finding was set to expire, which would have affected millions of americans and their families. Theres lots to get to this hour. Lets bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and National Reporter sahill kapoor. And we actually heard Michael Bennett speak on the senate floor. What did he have to say . Thats exactly right. Because you will remember that just a few hours ago, we wondered if senator Michael Bennet of colorado would be the one to hold this whole thing up. And certainly, he did provide a hold for about an hour or so, over the idea that no ukraine funding was included in this continuing resolution. Bennett certainly not the only one who was upset to find that that money was not included here. But what he was able to do, by putting this temporary hold on, was extract from leadership, and both the democratic and re
Shutdown. So we are keeping a close eye on everything that is happening there. Lets take a look now at what House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy had to sayjust after the bill was passed. 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. 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 Dollar 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