Foreign Policy for America Statement on the Passage of a Continuing Resolution to Fund the Government
October 02, 2023
October 02, 2023
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Foreign Policy for America issued the following news release:
By passing a 45-day stopgap bill, Congress narrowly avoided an unnecessary and costly government shutdown. The House leadership's decision to end this crisis by finally acknowledging the bipartisan majority in favor of keeping our government open averted the harmful impact that a government shutdown would have had on our military, federal civil servants, and the American people.
FP . . .
By passing a 45-day stopgap bill, Congress narrowly avoided an unnecessary and costly government shutdown. The House leadership's decision to end this crisis by finally acknowledging the bipartisan majority in favor of keeping our government open averted the harmful impact that a government shutdown would have had on our military, federal civil servants, and the American people.
FP . . .