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House easily passes stopgap funding bill, averting shutdown

by Associated Press
| September 24, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sweeping bipartisan vote that takes a government shutdown off the table, the House passed a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday night, shortly after President Donald Trump prevailed in a behind-the-scenes fight over his farm bailout.

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