With the government now funded, there's more time to fight over government funding.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabrie Beneshore, in for David Brancaccio.

Last night, President Biden signed a bill to temporarily avoid a government shutdown, which would

have happened at midnight tonight. But the stopgap measure basically just pushed the most

controversial stuff a couple months down the road. Among those items, the President's request for more aid to

Israel and Ukraine. Marketplace is Nancy Marshall Genser has more on that.

President Biden asked Congress last month for about a hundred five billion

dollars in aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and border security.

Democrats want aid to Israel, Democrats want aid to Ukraine.

Sarah Binder is a professor of political science at George Washington University.

She says for Republicans opposed to more aid for Ukraine?

The price for their votes is immigration reform. In fact earlier this year the House passed

immigration legislation it would have restarted construction on the border wall

and made it more difficult for migrants to get asylum in the US, non-starters for

Democrats. The House also passed a 14 billion dollar aid package for Israel with

no money for Ukraine. And now, Binder says,

The ball's definitely in the Senate's court.

A bipartisan group of senators is working on a compromise on immigration that would be

included in a broader package of aid for Ukraine and Israel, which could be tacked onto a bigger

bundle of spending bills.

That could be in January.

That could be in February.

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