Over the weekend, Congress reached a deal to avert a federal shutdown by passing a slimmed-down temporary government spending plan that will fund the government until mid-March. The final vote came days after the world’s richest man and Trump adviser Elon Musk helped torpedo an earlier version of the spending bill that had been negotiated by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. Several key initiatives were then removed from the bill, including $190 million for children’s cancer research. A provision to suspend the debt ceiling was also removed despite that being a top demand of Donald Trump. Biden signed the new funding legislation on Saturday.