The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday night, thwarting a government shutdown that would have kicked in at midnight on Friday and concluding days of discord that threatened a brief weekend funding lapse.
The upper chamber passed the spending patch, which keeps the government open through Feb. 18, in a 69-28 vote. Senators first rejected an amendment from Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah that sought to defund President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate on U.S. businesses. Conservatives had demanded the vote, at a simple majority threshold, in exchange for speedy passage of the stopgap.
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