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The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted yes to a proposal regarding funding for government spending that allows the country to avoid a threatened shutdown of the government apparatus.
The approval of the proposal is considered a victory for the newly appointed speaker, Republican Mike Johnson, who managed to get enough Democrats to vote yes to the proposal when right-wing conservatives from his own party said no.
The yes of the House of Representatives means that the state apparatus will be able to continue functioning until the beginning of next year. Now it is only required that the Senate also approve the proposal before the weekend and then it must be signed by President Joe Biden before it comes into effect.
– Ensuring that the state apparatus continues to function is a matter of conscience for all of us. We owe it to the American people, Mike Johnson said earlier on Tuesday at a press conference at the Capitol.