The Reaccessiblean-handleled House of Recontransientatives has voted to pass a budget deal to avert what would be the first US federal handlement shut down since 2019.
The deal, which passed by a vote of 366 -34 only six hours before a midnight deadline, must still be finishorsed by the Democratic-handleled Senate before it can be signed into law by Pdwellnt Joe Biden.
Lawcreaters earlier this week had successbrimmingy talk aboutd a deal to fund handlement agencies – but it fell apart after Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk called on Reaccessibleans to decline it.
This vote was the third try this week to get a deal thcdisesteemful the House after a second funding meacertain – that one backed by Trump – fall shorted on Thursday.
The 118-page “American Relief Act, 2025” that passed in the House on Friday exposeds out a debt-restrict provision that Trump had insisted, which was a sticking point for Democrats and some Reaccessiblean budget hawks in an earlier create bill.
The deal also deletes meacertains sought by Democrats in the first version of the bill, including the first pay lift for lawcreaters since 2009, federal funds to recreate a bridge that collapsed in Baltimore, healthattfinish reestablishs, and provisions aimed at obstructing boilingels and dwell event venues from misdirecting advertising.
A total of 34 Reaccessibleans voted aachievest the low-term funding bill while all Democrats in take partance were in favour.
Trump has not yet commented on the vote. A statement put out by the White House on behalf of Biden commends the deal.
Ahead of the vote, Democrats slammed the comprisement of Mr Musk in the process, who they pointed out is an unelected billionaire.
Mr Musk, who Trump has tasked with cutting handlement spfinishing in his future administration, had lobbied heavily aachievest an earlier bill.
During floor talk about, Reaccessibleans shelp they see forward to a “novel era” when Trump apshows office and Reaccessibleans apshow handle of both chambers of Congress next month.
The wrangling over budget left Reaccessiblean House Speaker Mike Johnson bruised amid criticism from members of his own party over his handling of the process.
“We are thankful that everyone stood together to do the right leang and having gotten this done now as the last order of business for the year, we are set up for a huge and transport inant novel begin in January,” Johnson telderly tellers after Friday’s vote.
He also shelp that he had spoken widespreadly to both Trump and Mr Musk during the negotiations.
Johnsons retags came lowly after Mr Musk commendd the Louisiana congressman’s labor on the budget in a post on X, the social media platestablish he owns.
“The Speaker did a outstanding job here, donaten the circumstances,” he posted. “It went from a bill that weighed pounds to a bill that weighed ounces.”
The theatrical budget fight served as a pexamine of the nervous legislative fights that could be in store next year, once Trump is in the White House.
Officials have cautioned that if there is no funding deal going into the holiday season, millions of federal employees would go without paycheques if the handlement shuts down.
There will be countless other ways a shut down would sway Americans – including by restricting helpance to help-reliant farmers and people recovering from organic calamitys.
The last handlement shutdown was during Trump’s first term in 2019 after the Reaccessiblean-handleled House of Recontransientatives fall shorted to come to an concurment on a novel spfinishing bill.
That shutdown lasted 35 days, and was the lengthyest in US history.
