Congress agrees Wednesday to push off shutdown battle until December

Effective Oct 1, 2015

Published Oct 1, 2015

Last Reviewed Oct 1, 2015

The government isn’t going to shut down — at least, not for a while.

Congress on Wednesday approved a temporary spending measure that will stave off a shutdown through Dec. 11.

The vote to avert the shutdown came hours before the government would have run out of spending authority.

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