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President Obama touts positive job growth in his weekly address while urging Congress to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
President Obama touts positive job growth in his weekly address while urging Congress to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
President Biden sought to prove to a skeptical nation that his stewardship has delivered results both at home and abroad.
The US Senate votes in favor of a stopgap funding bill, in a rare show of cross-party unity to keep federal agencies running into 2022 and avert a costly holiday season government shutdown. With the clock ticking down to the 11:59 pm Friday deadline, the Senate votes by 69 to 28 to keep the lights on until February 18 with a resolution that had already advanced from the House of Representatives. IMAGES
The battle in Congress continues on how to raise the government's borrowing cap before the United States risks a potentially catastrophic default.