On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed a continuing resolution (CR) spending bill into law, avoiding a government shutdown after the bill passed in the House and Senate earlier this week.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields said in an announcement that Trump "signed the CR."
The House passed the bill earlier this week, where a thin GOP majority was able to pass the bill which is supposed to cut $13 billion from nondefense spending and increase defense spending by $6 billion.
After passing through the House, it went to a cloture vote in the Senate on Friday, which ended debate on the bill and allowed for a simple majority vote. The bill passed through the Senate with a vote of 54 to 46. Two Democrats joined the Republican senators in passing the bill.
Controversy over the 10 Democrats voting in favor of cloture on Friday caused backlash from their base as well as other Democrats in the House. All but one House Democrat voted in opposition to the spending bill, and many were pushing for their Senate colleagues to do the same.
However, on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he was planning on supporting the funding bill on grounds that a government shutdown would be worse.
"Musk has already said he wants a shutdown, and public reporting has shown he is already making plans to expedite his destruction of key government programs and services,” Schumer said at the time. “A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, the state and the country.”
Allowing for the shutdown likely would have resulted in Musk as well as DOGE to continue in their activities looking for spending cuts as well as those who could be fired from their government positions, but with other federal workers subject to a furlough.
Some House Democrats reportedly pushed for Schumer to be primaried in response to the move.
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