House Passes Funding Package to End Partial Government Shutdown
The House of Representatives passed a government funding package Tuesday to end the partial government shutdown, now in its third day, according to ABC News. The measure, which received some bipartisan support, passed with a vote of 217-214 and now heads to President Donald Trump's desk for signature.
The funding package provides funding for the Pentagon, Education, Treasury, Labor and State departments through the end of the fiscal year, ABC News reported. The bill also includes a two-week short-term measure to keep the Department of Homeland Security funded through the end of next week. Lawmakers in both chambers remain far apart on immigration issues.
In other news, William Stevenson, former first lady Jill Biden's ex-husband, was indicted on a murder charge connected to the death of his second wife late last year in Delaware, police said Tuesday, according to CBS News. New Castle County police responded to a reported domestic dispute on the 1300 block of Idlewood Road in the Oak Hill neighborhood, near the town of Elsmere, in late December. Linda Stevenson, 64, was found unresponsive in the living room and later pronounced dead, according to police. No charges were filed at the time of the death investigation. Inside Edition reported in 2020 that Stevenson met Biden on the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey, in 1969 and were married the following year. They divorced in 1975, and about a decade later, he wed Linda. Stevenson is the former owner of The Stone Balloon venue.
Also, an intelligence community watchdog has handed over a highly classified whistleblower complaint that includes an allegation of wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to top congressional leaders, following months of delay tied to classification disputes, a government shutdown, and leadership turnover at Gabbard's office, CBS News has learned. In a Feb. 2 letter to the leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees, intelligence community Inspector General Christopher Fox said he received final approval on Jan. 30 from Gabbard to share the material with a tight circle of lawmakers. The complaint had originally been filed eight months earlier, on May.
In Arizona, a ransom note was sent to a local news station following the disappearance of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, the Pima County sheriff told CBS News. The note, which the station received Monday and agreed not to report on, contained specific details about the home and what Nancy Guthrie was wearing that night, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said, although he would not confirm the accuracy of that information or the legitimacy of the note. Investigators have analyzed the note and are taking it seriously, Nanos said. He said the FBI reviewed the note and made the decision to share it with Savannah Guthrie. Authorities had hoped to keep the information from becoming public, but the note was obtained by TMZ, which reported on it before contacting the sheriff.
Finally, NASA plans an on-pad repair of the fuel leak that derailed an overnight dress rehearsal countdown for the agency's huge Artemis II rocket, according to CBS News. The agency then plans a second fueling test before making another attempt in March to launch four astronauts on a historic flight around the moon. "We are still in the process of assessing the data that we collected yesterday and developing the (repair) plan," said Lori Glaze, a senior manager in NASA's Exploration Systems Development office. "We do believe...at this point that the work that's in front of us can be conducted out at the pad, and that's what we anticipate."
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