(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump signed a stopgap spending bill early Thursday to keep the government funded through to December 11th.
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The bill, which the House approved last week, was also passed with 84 to 10 at the Senate on Wednesday.
In giving final approval to the bill, lawmakers completed the last of the essential legislative tasks that were keeping them in Washington before the election on November 3rd.
The funding was set to lapse at midnight, with the official start of the new fiscal year, and Mr. Trump signed the measure nearly an hour afterward as he returned from a campaign rally in Minnesota.