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 had been very clear about the possible impact here, and the messaging on that part was on these lawmakers and really putting the onus on House Republicans and speaker Kevin Mccarthy that something we saw President Biden do all week long, saying he even thought that the speaker made a terrible bargaining with some of those conservative trying to really bend to their demands and so, today, when you saw the speaker put that 45day spending measure that really punts this to mid november, there was a sense of a pause from the white house about evaluating what was really in it. So, there was a strategic Radio Silence of not wanting to weigh in, letting democrats do their thing, letting them figure out and getting a signal from leader jeffries about how to proceed, and once that process was underway, Senior Administration officials, im told, were in touch with a lot of these Folks On The Hill in congressional leadership. Both democrats and republicans, and obviously, the white house felt that democrats shouldnt have supported this measure. They would have been vocal in that. But given their silence, that was sort of the nod to keep going and pursuit thats, because at the end of the day, President Biden wanted to, of course, avoid a Government Shutdown. He didnt want to get to this pain monica, let me because senator schumers speaking. Lets take a listen. No Government Shutdown. Democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship. And we are glad that Speaker Mccarthy has finally heeded our message. In the end, more democrats supported this bill in the house that republicans. Proving bipartisanship was the best answer all along. I want to thank my colleagues here in the senate, especially our appropriators. Yourself, Madam President , susan collins, and leader mcconnell. Our bipartisan work in the senate is set the tone for the bill we are about to pass. Our bipartisanship made this possible, and showed the house that they had to act. We will keep the government open for 45 days with a clean cr. At the current funding levels. And we avoided all of the extreme nasty and harmful cuts maga republicans wanted. No 30 cuts across the board. No 30 cuts to things like health care, to the Social Security administration, to the Nutrition Programs for kids. Full reauthorization of the faa until december 31st. And the poisoned pill amendments, of which there were scores, mcgahn inspired rioters were all removed from the bill. After trying to take our government hostage, maga republicans won nothing. So, one more time. It is good Speaker Mccarthy finally, finally heeded our message. That bipartisanship was and is and remains the only way. He could have made this decision weeks ago. Now, ive said from day one, this is a bridge cr, a temporary solution, not the final destination. We will not stop fighting for more economic and Security Assistance for ukraine. Majorities in both parties support ukraine aid. And doing more is vital for americas security and for democracy around the world. But this cr is still very good news for the American People. Today, maga extremists have failed. Bipartisanship has prevailed. And both parties have come together to avoid a shutdown. Once again, thank you to leader mcconnell, appropriations chair patty murray, vice chair susan collins, and members on both sides of the aisle who came together. Todays cr would not have been possible, without the senates good work. The senate showed that bipartisanship was the only way, and the same will be true, again, in 45 days. I yield the floor. I do not yet yield the floor. President , i move to proceed to Executive Session to consider calendar 319. Question is on the motion. All those in favor say aye. Aye opposed . Nate. The ayes do have. It james see obrien james c. 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But the major headline from his speech is the senate has now passed a funding bill to keep the government open by a vote of 88 votes in favor. Nine opposed, we are working on getting the name of those nine. But as the Senate Majority leader, said this was a very good day for america. There will be no Government Shutdown. Declaring a victory for bipartisanship. And, again avoiding what he called massive or extreme cuts by maga extremist. No 30 cut across the board. Mcguire publicans have won nothing. But we will find ourselves here in 45 days, if not sooner, as the Congress Tries to find a longterm solution to this. For now, though there is no Government Shutdown, as we had all been bracing for and certainly, the white house. Lets cross back over to monica alba. Monica, my sincerest apologies to you for interrupting you, but we just wanted to hear the Majority Leader there speak. About the passage of this bill. And lets just go back to the point that we were saying and as i was concluding, those comments, that the white house and i think, most of us who are following this, who are bracing ourselves for a Government Shutdown. That now clearly has not happened. It will not happen. Give us the insight of what the white house is thinking about the passage of this specific short term funding bill. Obviously, on one hand, they are going to welcome it because it is not a shutdown of the government. But is it also a victory in terms of what they were hoping to get . Well, i think there is one big piece of this at the white house is watching very closely, and that is something that Leader Schumer alluded to. That is specifically this ukraine aid and funding. That is something that is really, really critical to President Biden and his administration. And as we saw personally, just a matter of days ago from ukrainian president zelenskyy, at the white house, On Capitol Hill, making that personal pitch and appeal and saying why it was so necessary that the u. S. Continue to support ukraine against the russian invasion that now has been going for nearly 20 months or so, so, a white house official did tell me this afternoon that they do expect this to be taken up in a supplemental matter in the coming days. And they were saying they really believe Speaker Mccarthy will be the want to follow through on this and when i asked them what gave them that kind of confidence, that he would do, that they said in the past, Speaker Mccarthy has shown a willingness to support this kind of funding and that they will hold him to that. So, that is a space to watch here, because there has been a lot of debate. There has been bipartisan support for continued funding and aid and help for ukraine. So, that is one piece of this that theyre watching. But certainly, some of these other items, the white house is pushing for intently when it came to Disaster Relief funding, fema is so strapped over the last couple of months, with so many different natural disasters. The faa, authorization, bill that was a key part of it, and that is connected to this 45day stopgap measure. So, theres a lot in this for the white house to like and support. But there will still be other things, and it is just this matter of strategy and how the president approaches this. They took a bit of a gamble with this process in the last couple of. Days a hands off approach, saying this is fully on republicans. This is a mess of their own making. We are going to tell americans whats at stake, but this is not for the white house for the president to resolve, because Speaker Mccarthy isnt honoring a deal he did have a Handshake Agreement on with the president back when they were talking about the debt ceiling and a potentially crippling default for u. S. That would have been historic. It was avoided because of the agreement that was reached. So, im told by white house officials there is a sense here that they are happy they held the line the way that they did. They didnt see any reason for the president and Speaker Mccarthy to meet again over this in the last couple of days, even though Speaker Mccarthy tried to put his pressure on the president to do that. So, they are happy with the way that that played out, because they think this was a pretty stunning reversal from Speaker Mccarthy, given some of his words of the last couple of days. You Better Believe the white house is going to continue to point that out and say that it didnt work when he wasnt trying to bend to the will of some of the rightwing republicans in his party. That failed. This is what he had to do. Come back to the table and reach out to democrats, for their support and getting this past, and the white house are certainly going to pivot to that, talk about bipartisanship, and remember, President Biden just a matter of days ago had that major speech in arizona that talked about threats to democracy at large. And really tried to pitch bipartisanship as something essential that the United States should try to return to, so, i think you can expect this president , the eternal optimist, to say, that is the only path forward here. A bicameral, bipartisan solution, and the white house will be pushing for that. All right, monica alba live for us the white house. Monika, which i can with you. As this makes its way from capitol hill to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the next couple of hours, perhaps even sooner than that, lets cross over to ali vitale, tracking all of this for us On Capitol Hill. Ali, we now have the vote. 88 in favor, nine no. And two not present, including senator tim scott, who was not there today. And the michigan senator debbie stabenow. Who i believe has covid and was not there for the vote as well. But tell us about how this vote obviously went down as expected . Tell us about those that voted no, and perhaps why they voted no on . Look, you and i were talking about this before, when we knew seven of those nine no votes, we can now total them out, because i know you are looking into who they were. Starting with senator blackburn of tennessee. Ron of indiana, cruz of texas, Marshall Paul schmidt, vance lee, and haggerty. Those are the nine senators that voted no, not entirely surprising, when you look at the concerns many of them have aired on the spending front. And he went i talked about why. In some cases, like senator paul of kentucky, these are not people who would regularly vote for continuing resolutions anyway. Theres no reason why this one should be any different. Its a fundamental belief of how government should be funded, which is to say, through a more regular Order Process of going bill by a bill, appreciation by appropriation, over those 12 Spending Bills and doing Government Funding that way. Of course, thats not what it continuing resolution is. In this instance, it is meant to buy them 45 more days to figure out what Appropriations Levels might look like. When you look at the rest of those numbers, though, yes, debbie stabenow, youre right, is that with covid. Senator tim scott, an interesting, month because im not sure he was out campaigning today. That would usually be a reason to miss a vote like this. But we had seen him maneuver in an attempt to try to be more present for some of the negotiations last week. Nevertheless, its possible he might be out on the trail. You might be fundraising. We have seen senators certainly run for president before and have to juggle the responsibilities at their day job with their aspirational child, so it is entirely possible that thats what senator scott might have been doing. Of course, he is the other person who wasnt voting and as we mentioned earlier in the program, were not counting the usual 100 here for senators. We are counting to 99, because of the loss of senator Diane Feinstein just yesterday. When your team from now patty murray and prior to that, senator, schumer is setting up what next week might look like, which is doing some housekeeping procedurally, to move forward on certain judicial nominees when they come back into town. Next week. But there is talk of what monica mentioned, which is that ukraine supplemental, or whether or not it can be paired with something a little larger in bipartisan fashion. Maybe something on the border and ukraine. Certainly, all these things are start of swirling in the mix as some senators have tried to dig in on those issues and see if theres any you know, bipartisan action that could be taken at this point. All, right ali, live for us On Capitol Hill. We also understand the white house has released a statement. Well get that statement here shortly in just a moment. Actually, i have the statement. Let me read it for you right here. I just got it, our inbox, a statement for President Joe Biden on the passage of the bipartisan bill tonight. Bipartisan majorities in the house and Senate Voting to keep the government open, preventing an unnecessary crisis that would have inflicted needless pain on millions of hardworking americans. This bill ensures the active duty troops will continue to get paid, travelers will be spared airport delays, millions of women and children will continue to have access to vital Nutrition Assistance, and so much more, this is good news for the American People. But i want to be clear, we should never have been in this position in the first place. Just a few months ago, Speaker Mccarthy and i reached a Budget Agreement to avoid precisely this type of manufactured crisis. For weeks, extreme House Republicans tried to walk away from that deal by demanding drastic cuts that would have been devastating for millions of americans. They failed. While the speaker and the overwhelming majority of congress have been steadfast in their support for ukraine, there is no new funding in this agreement to continue that support. We cannot, under any circumstances, allow american support for ukraine to be interrupted. I fully expect the speaker will keep his commitment to the people of ukraine, and secure passage of this support needed to help ukraine at this critical moment. That was a statement just in to our newsroom here from the white house. Lets continue this conversation now with my panel, michael , Managing Director for Hamilton Place strategies, and former White House Press secretary for first lady dr. Jill biden. Kurt bardella, former republican spokesperson for the House Oversight committee. He is now a democratic strategist, and a contributor for the los angeles times,