Dec. 20 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden on Saturday morning signed the stop-gap funding bill, averting a government shutdown, after the Senate and House approved the measure. The upper chamber passed the short-term spending bill , 85-11, early Saturday. The no votes were all Republicans except independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Advertisement Earlier on Friday, the House of Representatives approved the measure funding U.S. government operations through March, averting a pre-Christmas partial