"This could have been avoided".
The Senate passed a measure by voice vote after the House approved it in an overwhelming bipartisan 382-30 vote.
Fiscal 2017 began at the end of September, but CR's have become the norm in Congress. Lawmakers would nearly certainly have agreed to a full-year spending deal in the fall, but at Trump's request, GOP leadership punted to give the new administration a chance to add its stamp.
Without the extension or a longer-term funding bill, federal agencies will run out of money by midnight on Friday, likely triggering abrupt layoffs of hundreds of thousands of federal government workers until funding resumes.
The bill now heads to US President Donald Trump for signing into law. Health-care for the miners, however, appears to be on track. That assurance satisfied Democrats who wanted the spending agreement to ensure that the subsidies - which lower deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs for low-income consumers - would continue to be funded.
Republicans still pressed for policy wins with so-called riders related to abortion, environmental regulations, and curbing new financial rules. But Democrats, whose votes are needed to pass the measure, pushed back.
IS kills 2 in attack on Iraqi Kurdish base
The JOC said the forces "raised the Iraqi flag after inflicting losses to the enemy". Eastern Mosul was cleared of ISIL fighters in January.
Democrats praised a $2 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health - rejecting steep cuts proposed by Trump - as well as additional funds to combat opioid abuse and fund Pell Grants for summer school.
A new wrinkle emerged as Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House, threatened to withhold votes for the spending bill if Republicans tried to push for a vote this week on a revived health care repeal. Ultimately, Pelosi turned to White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to obtain assurances that the administration would continue to provide the payments.
But in a disappointment for the White House, Trump was destined to serve his 100th day in office - Saturday - without being able to claim victories on health care and a yearlong budget. That's the end of the current fiscal year.
This week, the revised bill won the backing of the Freedom Caucus, which received much of the blame for the demise of the House's earlier repeal bill in March, a legislative catastrophe for Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin.
Skepticism from Upton and other Republican moderates led GOP leaders to abandon an effort to hold a vote on the bill this week. McConnell said he expected the House by the middle of next week to approve and send to the Senate the spending bill for the remaining five months of the fiscal year. Leaders say they're still hopeful it can be passed next week. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Sherrod Brown of OH, along with Republicans representing parts of Appalachia, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The amendment would allow states to seek waivers from some provisions. He said the vote would not occur Friday or Saturday. In fact, the probes became headline news when House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., announced that he was going to the White House to brief Trump on sensitive material that he had not shared with Democrats on the committee.
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