The bill expected to pass through the Senate on Thursday could get the president’s signature before Friday night’s deadline.
Lawmakers filed a bill Wednesday night that should prevent a second partial government shutdown. President Donald Trump will get almost a quarter of his requested border wall funding, and the government will most likely avoid a tremor-effect after ending the longest shutdown in American history.
“We cannot repeat the disastrous government shutdown, so it is incumbent on Congress to come together to responsibly fund our government,” Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) said in The Hill. “This legislation represents a bipartisan compromise and will keep our government roughly 48 hours before the funding lapse deadline.”
Lowey, who’s chair of the House Appropriations Committee, filed the bill Wednesday night.
The U. S. government went into a partial shutdown on Dec. 22, which lasted 35 days — the longest in the country’s history. With a stalemate in Congress over who would pay for the president’s proposed $5.
