Government Shutdown Update March 2024. The latest news and live updates on senate voting after the house of representatives passed a stopgap bill to avoid a government shutdown. Senate passes spending bill after deadline, averting shutdown updated march 23, 2024 at 2:12 a.m.
A partial government shutdown this weekend could be brief, but congress hasn’t left itself much time to act before funding runs out. President biden signed a $1.2 trillion spending bill into law saturday, averting a brief partial government shutdown and officially keeping federal agencies.