Congress has passed a stopgap bill that will fund the federal government through Dec. 20. The bill will avoid a partial government shutdown just weeks before the Nov. 5 election that would have shuttered many government services and resulted in the furloughs of thousands of federal employees. In a nutshell, the bill keeps the government’s current level of annual discretionary funding at $1.2 trillion. While it doesn’t offer the spending cuts that many Republican lawmakers called for, the bill provides an additional $231 million in funding for the Secret Service. President Biden is expected to sign the bill before current government funding runs out on Oct. 1.
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