It's Friday, January 19th, 2024. Another shutdown averted, woo-hoo, Netanyahu bucks his allies.

And the Department of Justice outlines what went wrong in Uvaldi, Texas.

Next on the AM update.

Congress passed a bill on Thursday that would prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend and keep federal funds flowing through March 1st and March 8th.

The Democrat-led Senate voted 77 to 18 on final passage after considering a few amendments.

The Republican-led House soon followed suit,

passing it by a vote of 314 to 108. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden's desk to become law before funding expires Friday at midnight. It's the third stopgap bill since last September,

as the divided Congress struggles to agree on full-year government funding bills.

Thursday's bill passed with mostly Democratic votes, with 107 Republicans voting for it and 106 voting against it in the House.

A recent deal between Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

on how much to spend in the new year has renewed hope of completing the process by the new early

March deadlines. That's far from guaranteed as right-wing House Republicans have rightfully

rebelled against it. The first stopgap bill, of course, led to the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as

Speaker. His successor, Johnson, is seeking to avoid the same fate by selling conservatives'

victories in the latest deal. It's unclear what

those victories are, by the way. The bill would extend the two-part government funding deadlines

from January 19th to March 1st and from February 2nd to March 8th. The funding bill is unrelated

to negotiations surrounding an immigration and national security supplemental bill that would

provide aid to

Ukraine and Israel. Democrats and a lot of Republicans alike claim government shutdowns would have

disastrous consequences. Could we just once, all I'm asking for, just once, put that theory to the

test? Is that too much to ask? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to scale back Israel's

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