would then have to go to the president to decide to avert a shutdown before midnight tonight. within the last hour, we heard from the senate majority leader chuck schumer. i have very good news for the country democrats and republicans have come to an agreement and the government will remain open. we will have avoided a shutdown. bipartisanship, which has been the trademark of the senate, has prevailed and the american people can breathe a sigh of relief. but this is a bridge cr and leader mcconnell and i have agreed to continue fighting for more economic and security aid for ukraine. we support ukraine s efforts to defend its sovereignty against putin s aggression. so, thank you. thank you to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their excellent work. the bipartisanship here in the senate set the tone for today s result and i hope it sets the tone for the future. the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, offered this commitment. most senate republicans rema
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. you ve 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. let s take a closer look at what s in the stopgap measure. the bill keeps the government s 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 hundre
it has been a day full of twists and turns of the american people can breathe a sigh of relief. they will be no government shutdown. democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship and we are glad speaker mccarthy has finally heeded our message. in the end, more democrats supported this bill in the houston republicans. proving bipartisanship was the best answer all along. i want to thank my colleagues here in the senate, especially our appropriate as. madam president susan collins and leader mcconnell. our bipartisanship work in the senate set the tone for the bill we are about to pass. our bipartisanship made this possible. it showed the house we had to act. we will keep the government open for 45 days with a clean cr at current funding levels and we avoided all of the extreme, nasty and harmful cuts maga wanted. let s take a look at what exactly is in the bill. the bill keeps the government s funding at 2023 levels, but on
more aid for ukraine something opposed by some hard right house republicans. here s senate majority leader chuck schumer. it has been a day full of twists and turns. the american people can breathe a sigh of relief. there will be no government shutdown. democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship and we are glad speaker mccarthy has finally heeded our message. in the end, more democrats supported this bill in the house than republicans. proving bipartisanship was the best answer all along. i want to thank my colleagues here in the senate, especially our appropriators. madam president susan collins and leader mcconnell. our bipartisanship work in the senate set the tone for the bill we are about to pass. our bipartisanship made this possible. it showed the house we had to act. we will keep the government open for 45 days with a clean cr at current funding levels and we avoided all of the extreme, nasty and harmful cuts
shutdown. so we are keeping a close eye on everything that is happening there. let s 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. you ve 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 government s 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 4