
President Biden on Friday signed a stopgap funding measure to avoid a partial government shutdown, allowing lawmakers additional time to complete work on final fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills. The continuing resolution (CR) extension pushes back the two funding deadlines to March 8 and March 22, and arrives following congressional leaders’ announcement earlier in the week of a bipartisan agreement on a framework for six of the 12 fiscal year 2024 spending bills. “I am really glad that we have…