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Congress approves short-term extension to avoid shutdown, buy more time for final spending agreement

Feb. 29, 2024 21:06 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The bill now goes...