President Joe Biden on Friday signed a one-week, stopgap government funding bill, averting a shutdown over the weekend. Biden’s signature buys congressional negotiators another week to wrap up a bigger bill that would fund government agencies through Sept. 30. Measures addressing retirement savings and preventing another Jan. 6 insurrection are expected to hitch rides along with the so-called omnibus spending bill.
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