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The Senate has approved the House-passed short-term funding bill,

avoiding a midday shutdown and keeping the government running through March.

As NPR Susan Davis reports, the passage kept a tumultuous week on Capitol Hill.

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 in 16 years. Susan Davis,

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