Biden urges Congress to avoid government shutdown

President Biden is urging Congress to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month. With the clock ticking toward the fiscal year deadline at the end of September, the president weighed in on the need for a stopgap spending bill, saying it’s critical. Lawmakers are far from finishing work on the dozen annual appropriations bills that will fund federal agencies during the next fiscal year. So they’ll need to approve a temporary measure to prevent a partial shutdown on October first.