Mina Suzann

Government Shutdown 2024 Update Today New. Government agencies had to prepare multiple times for a shutdown during the last fiscal year since congress repeatedly punted on approving a full funding plan before finally. The senate overwhelmingly gave final approval early saturday to a $1.2 trillion spending bill to fund more than half of the government, effectively averting a shutdown by sending the legislation.

The new spending agreement allows leaders of the house and senate appropriations committees to set the funding levels for the dozen individual spending bills for. The vote was 320 to 99, with 113 republicans voting in favor and 97.