Government shutdown averted - Postal Service delays - NBA vaccine push

The House voted 254-175 to advance the measure. Just hours earlier, the Senate voted 65-35 — a display of bipartisanship in both chambers. Without a spending bill, the federal government faced a shutdown beginning Friday. The bill approved by Congress would keep the government open through Dec. 3.
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The Treasury Department estimates that the debt limit will be hit on Oct. 18, according to a letter Secretary Janet Yellen sent to Pelosi on Tuesday. The Senate's new spending bill does not include the debt limit increase.
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The House is bracing for a highly anticipated vote on an infrastructure bill that doesn't appear to have the support it needs to pass. The holdup is the result of a standoff between Democratic moderates, who want to de-link the two measures and pass the $550 billion infrastructure bill quickly, and progressive lawmakers, who are holding it up because they don't trust centrists to support the bigger one without the smaller one.