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Congress Extends Shutdown Deadline | Salt Lake City News
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Congress just bought itself more time—pushing the government funding deadline to December 11th to dodge a shutdown before the midterms. While the Senate’s bill adds cash for disaster relief and FBI Olympic prep, Democrats slipped in sneaky protections: blocking extra border patrol spending and pausing a rule that’d tightened federal grant approvals. But lawmakers still want to tackle the real budget by October 1st—this is just a temporary fix to avoid chaos ahead of Election Day.
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