This is no way to run a country. For the fourth time this financial year,the US Congress appears likely to avert a government shutdown by passing a stopgap funding measure.
The US government will run out of money on Saturday unless a last-minute deal on the debt ceiling is struck. It says a lot about the state of US politics and the challenges Joe Biden faces in trying to implement his agenda.
Donald Trump will be forced to issue his first presidential veto,after 12 Republican senators voted to reject his declaration of a national border emergency.
President Donald Trump plans to siphon billions of dollars from federal military construction and counter-drug efforts to fund his promised border wall.
"Zero chance you could spin this as a win for Republicans,"one Republican congressman said,adding that the bipartisan deal was"a total capitulation"and"a waste of three weeks".
Senior congressional Republicans,showing little appetite for another shutdown after being heavily criticised for the previous one,urged Trump to support the new agreement.
US congressional negotiators say an"agreement in principle"has been reached on border security funding,potentially averting another federal shutdown.
The White House has not ruled out another federal government shutdown even if it finds money for Trump's border wall elsewhere.
When US President delivers his annual State of the Union address this week,a Democrat will be seated at the rostrum over his shoulder for the first time.
The House Speaker said if Republicans have suggestions about adding more ports of entry or technologies,those kinds of things would be negotiable.
The US economy was expected to lose $US3 billion ($4 billion) from the partial federal government shutdown over Trump's demand for border wall funding.