The United States avoided bankruptcy after the Senate passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling in the short term

 

A bill to fund the US government by mid-February received the support of enough Senate members, thus preventing the partial closure of federal agencies later this week and bankruptcy of the country's debt, writes The Guardian.

  The vote came late Thursday after some Republican senators threatened to block the process to express their opposition to the mandatory vaccination proposed by President Joe Biden's administration. Senators voted in favor of an amendment to abolish compulsory vaccination at the federal level, which ultimately failed, clearing the way for the passage of the short-term funding bill.

The measure, which was approved by lawmakers earlier in the day, will keep federal funding for the next two and a half months.

  69 senators supported the proposal, 28 were against. The document is expected to be signed by US President Joe Biden in the near future.

Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate, just hours before the vote, managed to agree on the need to support the proposal.