he had little time to corral his members around a plan to keep the government open.

17 just hours before it was set to shutdown.Biden is expected to sign the bill.

averting a government shutdown and punting a spending fight in Congress until early next year.The funding bills are often grouped together into a large piece of legislation.But dissent from within his own party over its lack of spending cuts or funding for border security required Johnson to rely on Democratic votes to get it over the finish line.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries originally called the two-step plan a nonstarter.while the Senate has passed three that were grouped together in a minibus.

while dozens of Republicans opposed it.

It does not include supplemental funding for Israel or Ukraine.authorities say they expect domestic rail and air journeys will double over the same period last year.

04% of its reported number of cases a rate more than 100 times less than the United States and nearly four times less than neighboring Mongolia.said Tuesday it was seeing about 1 million new cases a day.

China is now facing a surge in cases and hospitalizations in major cities and is bracing for a further spread into less developed areas with the start of the Lunar New Year travel rush.The World Health Organization has also expressed concern about the lack of data from China.