Congress passed a stopgap government funding bill on Thursday, with the Senate and House both approving the legislation on a bipartisan basis to avert a looming weekend shutdown.

The House voted the further appropriations through by a count of 314-108, allowing funding at current levels to continue until March 1 for the Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, the Food and Drug Administration and military construction.

The 13-page bill also approved funding until March 8 for the Pentagon and all other federal agencies.

More than 100 House Republicans and two House Democrats — Mike Quigley of Illinois and Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts —  opposed the legislation, known as a continuing resolution, but there were still more than enough “yea” votes to clear the lower chamber’s required two-thirds majority.

A snowstorm forecast to hit Washington, DC, on Friday added urgency to the approaching spending deadline, but that didn’t stop many members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus from voting “no.”

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a member of the caucus, blasted the bill’s negotiators on the House floor ahead of the vote for entertaining “side deals” on appropriations — and whined that lawmakers were more concerned about leaving town before the snowstorm than dealing with the nation’s $34 trillion debt.

The Freedom Caucus also denounced the “Johnson-Schumer CR” in a position statement prior to the vote for not upholding Republicans’ commitment to “secure the border.”

“We had 14 Democrats join all Republicans in voting yesterday to denounce and end Biden’s open border policies,” added Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who chairs the caucus, referring to a resolution passed Wednesday in the House.

“Now, it’s time to require border security to fund this government. Shut down the border or shut down the government!” he threatened.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) huddled with Good, Roy and other caucus members on the floor ahead of the vote, apparently demonstrating his willingness to hear from each of his conference’s factions while governing a narrow 220-213 majority.

The Senate earlier voted 77-18 to pass the continued spending, with eighteen Republicans in opposition and five not voting, including Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), 90, whose office announced Thursday evening that he had just been released from the hospital following treatment for an infection.

“We have good news for America. There will not be a shutdown on Friday,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a floor speech. “Because both sides have worked together, the government will stay open, services will not be disrupted, we will avoid a needless disaster.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash), who chairs the Appropriations Committee, said a shutdown “should not be an acceptable option to anyone,” noting the additional “opportunities cost” for agencies having to prepare for the eventuality.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who opposed the bill, introduced a last-minute motion to return it to the Appropriations Committee and instead prepare a full-year government funding measure until the end of the fiscal year, but it was voted down 82-13.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), another “no” vote, also failed to pass an amendment to the legislation banning US funding to the West Bank and Gaza by a vote of 44-50.

President Biden will have to sign the legislation before the government’s lights start to go dark on Friday at 11:59 p.m.

Johnson — who acknowledged on Wednesday the funding would not give his caucus “everything we want” — introduced a “laddered” approach to the spending plan before the winter holiday recess, which was adopted again to extend the funding deadline.

The speaker has expressed a desire to return the lower chamber to regular order and pass 12 separate appropriations bills for federal agencies and operations — a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since 1996.

Its passage will allow Johnson to further negotiate a topline $1.66 trillion agreement with Schumer to fund the government for fiscal year 2024, with $888 billion in defense spending and $773 billion in discretionary spending.

At least $69 billion was included as part of a side deal that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) negotiated with Biden in a 2023 bill to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

Schumer called out hardline House Republicans last week for trying to “bully” their speaker and colleagues into a government shutdown.

The government has been funded on continuing resolutions since Oct. 1, when McCarthy passed an earlier bill to avert a shutdown that eventually led to his ouster by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and seven other GOP lawmakers.

In November, Johnson passed two separate continuing resolutions to extend the funding deadline to Jan. 19 and Feb. 2. All the funding bills kept federal spending at fiscal year 2023 levels.

Senate Republicans and Democrats are further hashing out a separate $106 billion national security supplemental deal to send military aid to Ukraine and Israel and to reform US border laws.

Johnson met with Biden at the White House on Wednesday to express reservations about the proposed border deal, making him the lone voice of opposition in congressional leadership next to Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).