{"id":27564,"date":"2018-02-09T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/09\/government-shutdown-ends-after-congress-passes-funding-bill\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:55:29","slug":"government-shutdown-ends-after-congress-passes-funding-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=27564","title":{"rendered":"Government shutdown ends after Congress passes funding bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House vote at 5.3oam narrowly passes bill to re-open government after funding ran out at midnight, prompting hours-long shutdownThe United States\u2019 second shut down in three weeks ended on Friday, after the president signed a nearly $400bn funding bill that narrowly passed Congress only a few hours before.Funding for the federal government had lapsed at midnight eastern time after Kentucky Republican Rand Paul stalled a Senate vote on a far-reaching budget agreement to fund the government through 22 March while also eliminating caps on government spending and suspending the debt ceiling for the year. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/09\/us-government-shuts-down-for-second-time-in-three-weeks\" target=\"_blank\">Government shutdown ends after Congress passes funding bill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House vote at 5.3oam narrowly passes bill to re-open government after funding ran out at midnight, prompting hours-long shutdownThe United States\u2019 second shut down in three weeks ended on Friday, after the president signed a nearly $400bn funding bill that narrowly passed Congress only a few hours before.Funding for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}