In a rare moment of partisan unity, the United States Congress has approved a stopgap funding bill that averts a pending government shutdown.The move to fund federal agencies through February 18 passed in the Senate on Thursday by a vote of 69-28, after Congressional leaders diffused a partisan standoff over federal money going towards enforcing worker vaccine mandates supported by the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden.Democrats hold a razor-thin margin in the Senate, which is split 50-50 between them and the Republicans. Ties are broken by Vice President Kamala Harris.
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