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The Senate has approved the House past stop-gap funding bill,

avoiding a midnight shutdown and keeping the government running until March.

The passage capped a tumultuous week on Capitol Hill, as NPR Susan Davis reports.

The slim-down agreement includes key provisions of the original bipartisan deal derailed by

President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire businessman Elon Musk. It'll keep the government

running until March 14th when

Congress will have to do this all over again. The bill includes about $100 billion for natural disaster

recovery efforts and a one-year extension of federal farm programs. House Republicans rejected

Trump's attempt to strong arm into the deal an unconditional increase in the debt ceiling,

the nation's borrowing

limit, although he did succeed in removing from the final agreement the first pay raise for lawmakers

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