In spite of dumbass rightwingnuts, the government is still operational

 Screw them and the sheep they rode in on.

The president released a statement saying that the stopgap measure is “good news for the American people,” while adding plenty of ire at Republicans who, he says, brought this situation to the brink.

 “But I want to be clear: we should never have been in this position in the first place. Just a few months ago, Speaker McCarthy and I reached a budget agreement to avoid precisely this type of manufactured crisis. For weeks, extreme House Republicans tried to walk away from that deal by demanding drastic cuts that would have been devastating for millions of Americans. They failed.”