Biden signed the government budget bill

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, the White House announced in a statement US President Joe Biden’s budget bill signed the last financial year of the government to prevent the closure of its various departments.

Biden signed this bill yesterday The US Senate finally passed the government budget bill after months of waiting and only hours before the end of the budget of some departments and institutions. approved to prevent an imminent government shutdown.

This plan was approved with 75 votes in favor against 22 votes against to cover the government’s budget deficit for fiscal year 2024.

According to this report, US senators, during a bipartisan vote, approved a budget of 467.5 billion dollars for agriculture, transportation, housing, energy, veterans and other programs until the end of the last fiscal year, which is September 30. approved.

The budget of these departments would end by midnight on March 8, and as a result, these departments would be closed. Since the beginning of the last fiscal year, four temporary budgets have been allocated to prevent the shutdown of these vital parts of the federal government. “color:black”>.

Republicans in Congress easily approved the budget last week, but some conservative Republicans in the Senate protested the insufficient funding. allocated for border security, had delayed the approval of this budget, but finally this bill was approved.

While Congress should continue to Work on an agreement to allocate funds to the military, internal security, health and some other institutions. The budget for these departments will end on March 22, which means in less than two weeks.

The sum of both budget bills amounts to 1.66 trillion dollars, and the Republic The right-wing petitioners are calling for further reductions in government spending to curb the national debt of $34.5 trillion. Last week, Congress introduced the bill, which details the deal Schumer and House Speaker Mike Johnson reached in early January.

In this 1,500-page bill, the budget of six government departments to which the Congress has allocated a budget and the budget of the other 6 institutions that will be allocated this month were mentioned in detail.

Since the beginning of last year, the committees of the US House of Representatives and the Senate have been working on the 12-item annual government budget bill for the new fiscal year that started from October last year and continues until October this year. The reason for not agreeing on its final figure was that they did not reach an agreement. Since then, four emergency budgets have been set aside for some government institutions to prevent a government shutdown.

US Congress until September 30, 2023, which was the end of the fiscal year , failed to pass provisions of the budget bill for the new fiscal year, which begins on October 1, because many Republicans in Congress called for drastic cuts in government spending. A request that President Joe Biden and other congressional Democrats did not agree to.

Currently the deadline for approval of all packages is March 22nd.

Helping Ukraine, helping Israel, and securing the southern borders and dealing with the movement of illegal immigrants, have been among the main points of dispute between the representatives and the government.

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