House approves another short-term extension to avoid shutdown [Video]

The House passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill later in the day.Video above: Biden meets with congressional leaders to discuss government shutdown, Ukraine aidThe short-term extension is the fourth in recent months, and many lawmakers expect it to be the last for the current fiscal year, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, who said that negotiators had completed six of the annual spending bills that fund federal agencies and had “almost final agreement on the others.””We’ll get the job done,” Johnson said as he exited a closed-door meeting with Republican colleagues.The vote to approve the measure was 320-99. It easily cleared the two-thirds majority needed for passage.At the end …