Federal lawmakers approved a $1.3 trillion spending bill ahead of a midnight March 23 government shutdown deadline, according to The New York Times.
Here are 10 things to know.
1. Both chambers signed off on the bill. The House approved the bill March 22 with a vote of 256 to 167, while the Senate approved the bill March 23 with a vote of 65 to 32.
2. The legislation would allow the government to remain open through Sept. 30.
3. Congress initially revealed the 2,232-page bill March 21.
4. The legislation calls for increasing defense and domestic spending by roughly $140 million, according to The New York Times.
5. The bill also increases funding to combat the opioid epidemic. The Washington Post reported the bill includes more than $4.65 billion for efforts such as treatment and prevention, up $3 billion from 2017 spending levels.
6. Additionally, the spending bill calls for a $10 billion funding increase for HHS, which includes a $3 billion boost in National Institutes of Health medical research funding and a $1.1 billion increase for the CDC, according to The Hill.
7. But the bill does not include the ACA stabilization bill authored by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. That legislation would have allocated funding for reinsurance programs and cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers.
8. The New York Times reports the bill did not drastically cut environmental spending as President Donald Trump wanted, and rejected the administration's desire to include deep funding cuts for the NIH.
9. Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, told reporters: "To get the defense spending, primarily, but all the rest of our priorities funded, we had to give away a lot of stuff that we didn't want to give away [to Democrats]," according to The New York Times. "My job is to get the president's priorities funded, which this does," he added.
10. Meanwhile, the conservative House Freedom Caucus urged President Trump to reject the spending bill. The president is considering vetoing the legislation "based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded," he tweeted March 23.
Read more about the bill and reactions to it here.
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