Key Lawmakers Reach Stopgap Spending Deal To Avert Shutdown

Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia and chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, left, speaks beside Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming and ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. House Democrats released a bipartisan short-term spending bill to keep the government open after midnight Friday and plan to put it to a House vote later today. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images