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President Biden has signed legislation that averts a government shutdown, delivering disaster aid assistance to farmers and more. Katie Wonnenberg with Public Private Strategies joins LiveNOW's Austin Westfall to discuss it further.

President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Saturday that averts a government shutdown, bringing a final close to days of upheaval after Congress approved a temporary funding plan just past the deadline and refused President-elect Donald Trump?s core debt demands in the package. The deal funds the government at current levels through March 14 and provides $100 billion in disaster aid and $10 billion in agricultural assistance to farmers. Mark B Harkins with the Government Affairs Institute, joined LiveNOW from FOX to discuss.

Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, dropping President-elect Donald Trump?s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. House Speaker Mike Johnson had insisted Congress would ?meet our obligations? and not allow federal operations to shutter ahead of the Christmas holiday season. But the day?s outcome was uncertain after Trump doubled down on his insistence that a debt ceiling increase be included in any deal ? if not, he said in an early morning post, let the closures ?start now.? Mark Kifer, Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Survey Research Center at High Point University, joined LiveNOW from FOX to discuss.

On Friday, the US House passed a new spending bill to keep the government funded temporarily. The plan now heads to the Senate to be voted on ahead of Saturday's deadline. LiveNOW's Andrew Craft discusses what happens next with Politico's Anthony Adragna.

The US House passed a short-term bill Friday to avoid a government shutdown, just hours before the deadline. Rhette Buttle with Public Private Strategies joins LiveNOW's Andrew Craft to discuss the plan.

The US House approved a new plan on late Friday from Speaker Mike Johnson, avoiding a government shutdown.

Veering toward a midnight Friday government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson is proposing a new plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but punts President-elect Donald Trump demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. LiveNOW from FOX host Mike Pache spoke to Bob McEwen, former Republican Congressman from Ohio/House Intelligence Committee on the latest.

President Biden and the First Lady will make a holiday visit to patients and families at Children?s National Hospital in Washington, DC.The president?s holiday visit is a hospital tradition dating back to the Truman administration.

A bill to avert a partial government shutdown that was backed by President-elect Trump failed to pass the House of Representatives on Thursday night. House GOP leaders must now huddle again to chart a way forward after the bill failed to net support from two-third of the chamber. Congress is inching closer to the possibility of a partial shutdown, with the deadline coming at the end of Friday. Political analyst Rich Rubino joined LiveNOW from FOX to discuss.

Congress is barreling towards a potential government shutdown after a bill backed by President-elect Donald Trump failed to pas the House of Representatives on Thursday night. LiveNOW's Austin Westfall breaks it down with political analyst Brian Sobel.

LiveNOW's Austin Westfall gets the latest update out of Atlanta with FOX 5 Atlanta's Christopher King after a Georgia appeals court disqualified Fani Willis from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump's election interference case.

A Georgia appeals court disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump. LiveNOW's Andrew Craft breaks down the details with legal analyst Cully Stimson.

A bill to avert a partial government shutdown that was backed by President-elect Trump failed to pass the House of Representatives on Thursday night. Congress is inching closer to the possibility of a partial shutdown, with the deadline coming at the end of Friday. The bill needed two-thirds of the House chamber to pass, but failed to even net a majority. Two Democrats voted with the majority of Republicans to pass the bill, while 38 GOP lawmakers bucked Trump to oppose it. The margin fell to 174 to 235.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) makes remarks to members of the media on Capitol Hill as members of the House vote on an interim spending bill to fund the government ahead of a potential government shutdown.