US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a text allowing federal land funding through September, hours after Congress passed the text, ending months of tension over the 2024 budget.

“This bipartisan legislation we just signed allows the government to continue to govern, invest in the American people and strengthen our economy and national security,” the Democratic president said, according to Reuters, AFP and Agerpres.

On Saturday, the US Congress passed a bill aimed at funding the federal government until September and preventing a “shutdown” of the world’s largest economy, i.e. the paralysis of its public services.

Senators were unable to pass the bill by midnight Friday, which would have led to a shutdown. But elected officials finally agreed on the final passage of this $1.2 trillion financial bill.

The law would extend the US budget through the end of the fiscal year on September 30.

This 1,012-page text, the result of very tough negotiations, contains measures that would have a strong resonance abroad.

The text bans any direct funding from the United States to the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, which has been at the center of controversy since Israel accused 12 of its 13,000 staff in Gaza of involvement in the deadly October 7 Hamas attack.

The law also includes hundreds of millions of dollars for Taiwan, but does not include funding for Ukraine, as the package for Kyiv is the subject of separate negotiations.

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