The Republican-controlled US Congress has narrowly passed a temporary spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, one day before the deadline.
Representatives voted 231-188 for the bill on Thursday to fund federal government for another four weeks, and then the measure cleared the Senate, 66-32.
A number of Democratic senators opposed the bill because it did not address the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who came to the United States as children, but Democrats from Republican-leaning states voted in favor of the measure.
“They [immigrants] embody the best in our nation: patriotism, hard work, perseverance,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California told the chamber’s Rules Committee on Thursday. “We should not leave them to celebrate the holidays in fear.”
The stopgap legislation would keep the government from closing down at midnight Friday and would give more time to members of Congress to reach an…