Senate passes stopgap funding measure, narrowly avoiding shutdown

Published February 17, 2022 11:55pm ET



The Senate on Thursday voted to approve a stopgap funding measure, narrowly avoiding a Friday deadline to avert a government shutdown.

The bipartisan deal on the continuing resolution, or CR, allowed senators to leave Washington ahead of the upper chamber’s weeklong President’s Day recess as some lawmakers travel to a security conference in Munich amid the looming threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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