The US government has enacted a budget to avert shutting itself down, but the bitterly disputed deal doesn’t include a call from President-elect Donald Trump to increase the federal borrowing limit.
US President Joe Biden signed the spending bill into law on Saturday morning. The Senate passed the agreement shortly after a midnight deadline by 85-11. The House of Representatives approved it hours earlier by 336-34.
Without a funding deal, millions of federal employees would have ended up either on temporary unpaid leave or working without pay.
US government debt stands at about $36 trillion (£29tn), with more money now being spent just on the interest payments than on US national security.