Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. Am the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, after much rangling, Congress moves to avoid a government shutdown with a new funding bill.

Top U.S. diplomats meet the new leaders of Syria who overthrew the Assad regime and are now attempting to rebuild the war-torn country.

And life in the West Bank following the October 7th Hamas terror attacks has been brutal and unpredictable.

We have no future now. Even for my daughter, she has no future. If they had destroyed the house with us

inside, it would have been better.

Welcome to the news hour. Days of chaos and uncertainty on Capitol Hill appear to be winding down. A bill backed by President-elect Donald Trump to keep the government open was rejected by the House last night. But this afternoon, a breakthrough on a very similar agreement was announced by House Speaker Mike Johnson.

We will not have a government shutdown and we will meet our obligations for our farmers who need

aid for the disaster victims all over the country and for making sure that military and essential

services and everyone who relies upon the federal government for a paycheck is paid over the

holidays.

And moments ago, the House passed the bill with bipartisan support. It now heads to the Senate with just hours until the midnight deadline. Lisa Desjardin has been tracking it all on Capitol

Hill. So Lisa, where do things stand right now? Right. Let's take a quick look at the House floor. That vote just completed. This could very

well be the last House vote of this Congress. I want to tell you the vote total 366 votes for

this spending bill that would kick things down the road. I'll talk about the details in a second.

All of the no votes, 34 of them were Republicans. So Democrats really helped get this across the finish line here in the road. I'll talk about the details in a second. All of the no votes, 34 of them, were Republicans.

So Democrats really helped get this across the finish line here in the House. So what's in this

exactly? Let's take a look. First of all, this bill would extend the funding of government funding

until about mid-March. It has $100 billion about that for disaster aid. It has $10 billion for farmers.

There is not an increase in the debt ceiling.

You might be wondering, Lisa, doesn't that look just like a graphic you used the other day?

Why, yes, it does.

This bill is incredibly similar to a proposal that failed earlier except for the debt ceiling has been removed.

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