US Congress agrees to funding deal to avert shutdown in blow to Trump

US Congress agrees to funding deal to avert shutdown in blow to Trump


US Congress agrees to funding deal to avert shutdown in blow to Trump
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US congressional leaders have agreed to a short-term funding deal in a move that averts a damaging pre-election government shutdown and also amounts to a snub for Donald Trump.

Writing to congressional colleagues, Johnson made it clear he was bowing to the inevitable.

Johnson held talks with Trump, even visiting his club in Mar-a-Lago in Florida, over how to resolve the impasse.

The website Punchbowl argued that Johnson and Trump had been guilty of a political misjudgment in pushing the Save Act, suggesting that the speaker had weakened his position in the process.

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