The Senate early Saturday morning passed a bill to avert a government shutdown, sending the measure to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The move comes after the House overwhelmingly passed the bill on Friday. The new spending plan does not include President-elect Donald Trump’s demand to suspend the debt limit. The legislation would extend current fiscal levels until mid-March, provide $110 billion in relief to help natural-disaster survivors and aid farmers, and grant an extension for the farm bill, which must be reauthorized. Senate passes funding bill, averting government shutdown Return to menu Jacob Bogage The Senate easily approved on early Saturday legislation to avert a government shutdown, sending the measure to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. The bill, which passed by an 85-11 vote, extends federal funds to mid-March, sends more than $100 billion in relief to farmers and natural disaster victims, and reauthorizes the sweeping agriculture policy and anti-poverty law called the farm bill. It was the final vote of the 118th Congress of the United States. Updates continue below advertisement It comes after a week of chaos in the House that materialized into a last-gasp compromise on Friday afternoon. House Republicans abandoned a bipartisan deal earlier in the week only to arrive at another, substantially similar bill after rejecting demands from President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire adviser. Trump ordered Republicans to suspend the nation’s borrowing limit to set up an easier path for the GOP to pass a new tax cut law in 2025. The GOP tried to include that measure in a Thursday night bill, but it was refused by a combination of Democrats and conservative hard-liners.