奧巴馬簽署年聯邦政府開支法案大綱

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a $1.1 trillion bill that will fund nearly every federal government agency through 2015.

The only exception in the bill signed Tuesday by Mr. Obama is the Department for Homeland Security, which will run out of funding at the end of February. Republican leaders limited funding for the agency so it can force the president to reverse his executive order that removes the threat of deportations from millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

The bill's final passage was thrown in doubt last week when Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas demanded a vote on a proposal to cut funds that could be used to carry out Mr. Obama's executive order.

Congressional Democrats, led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, also threatened to scuttle the bill over a provision that would weaken parts of the Dodd-Frank financial sector regulation law passed in 2010.美國總統奧巴馬簽署了一項1萬1千億美元開支法案，該法案將使美國聯邦政府的幾乎所有機構得以在2015年維持運作。

在奧巴馬簽署的這項法案中，唯一的例外是國土安全部，到明年2月底，國土安全部將沒有運作經費。共和黨領導人對國土安全部的經費加以限制，以迫使奧巴馬總統撤銷有關使美國境內數百萬非法移民免予遣返的政令。

上星期，來自德克薩斯州的共和黨參議員克魯茲要求對一項提案進行表決，削減可能用做執行奧巴馬政令的款項，此舉曾使開支法案能否最終通過出現疑問。

以馬薩諸塞州籍參議員沃倫爲首的民主黨議員曾威脅阻撓開支法案獲得批准，理由是其中一項條款將削弱2010年通過的多德 - 弗蘭克金融監管法規。