The closure of the United States government was avoided when the Senate approves the bill of expenses

The United States has avoided a government closure after the Senate approved a measure led by Republicans to keep the government financed over the next six months.

The Stopgap financing bill was approved in Senate 54-46, since two Democrats joined everyone but a Republican Senator to vote yes. President Donald Trump must now sign it before the deadline of midnight on Friday.

The key vote occurred before when some Senate Democrats, after a fierce debate, allowed the measure to approve a procedural obstacle.

The leader of the Senate minority, the Democrat Chuck Schumer, and another nine broke with his colleagues to vote to advance the bill to his last vote on Friday night.

Two Democrats, Senator Jeanne Shaheen and independent Senator Angus King of Maine, voted in favor of their final passage. Schumer voted “no.”

On Thursday, he announced that he would vote to allow the measure to advance, saying that although it was not a bill that he liked, he believed that provoking a closure would be a worse result.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez called Schumer’s will to let the bill of expenses proceed as a “great slap on the face”, adding that there is a “broad sense of betrayal” between the party, according to the American partner of the BBC, CBS News.

She said that supporting the bill “encodes the chaos and reckless cuts that Elon Musk has been pursued”, and that the Senate Democrats who voted would be empowering “the theft of our federal government to finance the tax cuts for billionaire.”

The Democrats had agonized on whether to support the measure, and finally pressed a continuous resolution of 30 days that it was unlikely to gain enough support to approve.

Senator Ted Cruz accused the Democrats of directing “political theater” and praised the approval of the bill.

“The government is funded, let’s go back to work,” he said in a statement.

The passage is a victory for Trump and the Republicans of Congress.

On Friday morning, Trump offered rare bipartisan praise of Schumer’s decision to let the bill progress, writing that “a non -pass would be a destroyer of countries, approval will lead us to new heights.”

The legislation would maintain much of the federal levels of financing of the Biden administration instead, with some key changes.

Military spending increases by $ 6 billion (£ 4.6 billion), for articles such as border security, medical care of veterans and military spending. But it would reduce non -defense funds by approximately $ 13 billion.

Local officials in Washington DC feared that the bill would result in a $ 1 billion cut in federal funds for the city during the next six months. However, the Senate approved a separate bill that kept its current operational budget intact, the New York Times reported.