Tonight on PBS News Weekend, after a chaotic week in Congress, President Biden signs a spending bill that prevents a government shutdown.

Then it's been a year ravaged by war, leaving millions of children in urgent need of help.

And how climate change is pushing a rare species of deer to the brink of extinction.

They are very gentle, very, very gentle.

And the longer you live here, the more you want to protect them. Good evening. I'm John Yang.

President Biden signed the short-term spending bill this morning that prevents a government shutdown.

The stroke of a pen ended chaotic days that saw President-elect Trump

clashing with House members of his own party. Final congressional approval of the bipartisan

deal came just past the midnight deadline. The measure extends current government funding through

mid-March, provides $100 billion in disaster relief to hurricane survivors,

and $10 billion in aid to farmers.

But lawmakers refused Mr. Trump's core demand to raise the nation's debt limit.

Lisa Desjardin, our congressional correspondent,

followed every step of this process on Capitol Hill this week.

Lisa, why did this take so long? Why was this so hard?

Such a good question, John. In the end, I think that this was a result of having an

inexperienced speaker who went way too far in making commitments to Democrats that he didn't

even know he had the votes for either among his own Republican

conference or the vote of approval from President-elect Trump, which we know is critical

for Republicans in Congress.

What happened here was Speaker Johnson spent days negotiating with Democrats, and that bill

was much maligned because of its size, But in truth, a lot of the things

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