The Democratic-controlled Senate's bipartisan compromise won approval by 81 votes to 18.

 

The deal was then passed by 285-144 in the House of Representatives, whose Republican leadership begrudgingly¹ agreed to support the measure.

 

It came hours before the deadline to raise the $16.7tn limit.

 

The bill yanked the US back from the brink² of a budgetary abyss（深渊，无底洞） by extending the treasury's borrowing authority until 7 February.

 

It also funds the government to 15 January, reopening closed federal agencies and bringing hundreds of thousands of furloughed employees back to work.

 

President Barack Obama signed the bill into law early on Thursday morning. 

 

 

The White House budget office said federal workers should return to work on Thursday.

 

The deal, however, offers only a temporary solution and does not resolve the budgetary issues that fiercely divide Republicans and Democrats³.

 

President Obama warned that US lawmakers must "earn back the trust of the American people".

 

"We've got to get out of the habit of governing by crisis," the Democratic president added, speaking after the Senate vote on Wednesday evening.

 

"My hope and expectation is everybody has learned there's no reason why we can't work on the issues at hand, why we can't disagree between the parties without still being agreeable and make sure that we're not inflicting⁴ harm on the American people when we do have disagreements."

 

Also speaking after the first vote, Senate Democratic Majority leader Harry⁵ Reid said: "Let's be honest, this is pain inflicted⁶ on a nation for no good reason and we cannot, cannot make the same mistake again."

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