CNN: Biden Issues Statement on Government Funding Bill, Says It ‘Rejects the Accelerated Pathway to a Tax Cut for Billionaires’

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WHITFIELD: “New today, President Joe Biden has now signed a stopgap government funding bill into law after Congress worked into the early morning hours to avert a federal government shutdown. In a statement, Biden praised the deal, which delivers a $100 billion relief in disaster relief, saying, quoting now this agreement represents a compromise which means neither side got everything it wanted, but it rejects the accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires that Republicans sought, and it ensures the government can continue to operate at full capacity. The U.S. Senate gave the bill its final approval just after midnight, hours after the house passed it, allowing funding to last through mid-March. Lawmakers had scrambled this week to get a deal done after president elect Trump called on Republican members to scrap the original plan. Trump wanted to suspend the nation‘s debt ceiling, which ultimately did—“