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The Senate passed the spending package by a bipartisan vote of 71 to 29, but the House of Representatives is out of town and not expected to take up the measure until Monday. The US government entered what is expected to be a brief shutdown on Saturday after Congress failed to approve a deal to keep a wide swath of operations funded ahead of a midnight deadline.
The House voted to repeal a Senate GOP measure allowing lawmakers to sue the government for $500K, attaching it to a funding bill that could keep the government open.