US President Joe Biden has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to supporting Ukraine as Washington is struggling to evade an imminent government shutdown.  

The US House of representatives has passed a stopgap measure to avert government shutdown hours before funding expires.

A government shutdown looms in the US as the Democratic-led Senate and the House, controlled by Republicans, remain at loggerheads on plans to fund federal agencies. 

McCarthy rejects a stopgap funding bill advancing in the Senate, as the fourth partial shutdown of the US government in a decade seems more likely.

Biden on Saturday blamed "a small group of extreme Republicans" for a budget impasse that has placed the US government a week away from a shutdown.

Leading Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate scrambled on Wednesday to head off the threat of a partial federal government shutdown posed by Republicans opposed to President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

US Democratic lawmakers have reached an agreement with Republicans to avoid a government shutdown.