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Biden signs stopgap funding bill to keep government running

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of Calif., speaks during an enrollment ceremony for continued government funding, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of Calif., holds up a signed document for continued government funding, joined by House Democrats including Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., at right of Pelosi, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the November jobs report, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, left, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., arrive to vote on an appropriations bill that funds the government through Feb. 18 and avoids a short-term shutdown after midnight Friday, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. A quick passage of the measure in the Senate has been in doubt because of a fight over President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandates. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., runs from the Senate chamber after voting on an appropriations bill that funds the government through Feb. 18 and avoids a short-term shutdown after midnight Friday, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. A quick passage of the measure in the Senate had been in doubt because of a fight over President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandates. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Night falls at the the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, with the deadline to fund the government approaching. Republicans in the Senate are poised to stall a must-pass funding bill as they force a debate on rolling back the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandates for some workers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, joined by Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., left, leaves a private GOP lunch meeting as he continues to press for a vote on his proposal to barring vaccine mandates that the Biden administration has ordered for U.S. companies, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., walks to a luncheon of Senate Democrats, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens to a staffer, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Night falls at the the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, with the deadline to fund the government approaching. Republicans in the Senate are poised to stall a must-pass funding bill as they force a debate on rolling back the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandates for some workers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Biden signs stopgap funding bill to keep government running