Senate passes stopgap bill to avert government shutdown – live

Vote will extend funding until 3 December, pending approval by the House, as Democrats continue to wrangle over Biden’s economic agenda

• Democrats barrel toward make-or-break vote

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House speaker Nancy Pelosi left her press conference by urging reporters to “think positively” about the negotiations over the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package.

And yet, as Pelosi was making her comments, House majority leader Steny Hoyer said he was not confident that the infrastructure bill would pass today, as Democratic leadership had previously hoped.

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