Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed</a> the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown.
The White House said Biden signed the legislation at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was spending the weekend. It had cleared the Senate by a 74-24 vote shortly after funding had expired for the agencies at midnight.
But the White House had sent out a notice shortly after the deadline announcing that the Office of Management and Budget had ceased shutdown preparations because there was a high degree of confidence that Congress would pass the legislation and the president would sign it Saturday.