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
operation against hamas in gaza s biggest hospital al shifa in gaza city where thousands of civilians are believed to be sheltering. in a statement the idf says is conducting a ground operation in gaza to defeat hamas and rescue hostages. israel is at war with hamas, not the civilians in gaza, it says. we re just getting details mark correspondence in gaza who was hearing that israeli soldiers are now inside shifa hospital and eyewitness told us reporter rushdi abualouf saying that is really fight a smoke from that caused people to suffocate. he said soldiers vandalised the specialised surgical department and contact with him was cut off. it comes after the white house and pentagon confirmed there is an intelligent supporting israel s claim that hamas and the palestinian islamichhad are operating from tunnels under hospitals including al shifa. they say they are storing weapons there. hamas denies the claims and his court for an international committee to come in and inspect