US Congress Passes Stopgap Bill To Avert Govt Shutdown Ahead Of Nov 5 Elections

The US Congress passed a stopgap bill to avert a partial government shutdown beginning next week, even as a large number of House Republicans revolted against their leadership for failing to achieve new federal spending cuts. The Democratic-majority Senate passed the bill by a margin of 78-18, hours after the House of Representatives approved it. The measure will maintain the government's current level of roughly $1.2 trillion in annual discretionary funding through Dec. 20, avoiding a government shutdown just weeks before the Nov. 5 election. Vishal Vivek brings us this report.