MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Joe Biden has signed a temporary budget bill, ending the formal US government shutdown, the White House said on Saturday.
«On Saturday, December 21, 2024, the President signed into law … which provides fiscal year 2025 appropriations to Federal agencies through March 14, 2025,» the White House said in a statement.
The upper chamber of the US Congress has belatedly supported a bill for a temporary extension of federal government funding, allowing a shutdown. However, the suspension of the work of the US federal government was merely formal due to the weekend. A shutdown would have entered its full phase on Monday.
By the March 14 funding deadline, a new US administration under President Donald Trump will be in power.
The new bill «provides disaster relief appropriations and economic assistance to farmers; extends the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018; and extends several expiring authorities,» the statement said.
