All four members of Maine’s congressional delegation supported an eleventh-hour bill to fund the federal government for roughly three months — helping stave off a potential government shutdown just hours before the deadline.

The new bill funds the government through March 14 at current spending levels. It also provides $100 billion in disaster aid and $10 billion in agricultural assistance.

The House passed the continuing resolution 366-34 around 6 p.m. Friday, just hours before a midnight deadline to avert a shutdown. Democratic Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden of Maine joined more than 350 House lawmakers to support it.

Once it passed the House, the Senate worked into the night to pass the bill, 85-11, just after the midnight deadline. Both of Maine’s senators — Republican Susan Collins and independent Angus King — voted in favor of the bill.

President Joe Biden signed the bill into law later Saturday morning.

King said that while he was glad Congress was able to pass the continuing resolution, it only pushes budget decisions off for a matter of months.

“We shouldn’t have had to do it under those circumstances,” he said in a phone interview Saturday. “We’ve known these deadlines. I don’t understand why we can’t pass budgets. This is not a budget, it is simply spending at the same level as last year.”

“The estimate is a continuing resolution costs the Defense Department something like $5 billion in order to keep the work going, so it’s a terrible way to run the government,” King continued. “On the other hand, I’m glad we were able to do it. It was a very close call.”

Ahead of the vote, Collins had expressed her support for the continuing resolution and supplemental relief package on the Senate floor.

“I hope that in the next Congress we can bring appropriations bills to the Senate floor in a timely fashion and avoid this kind of end of the year pile-up,” she said.

Collins added that the relief package will “deliver much-needed assistance to individuals, small businesses and communities working to rebuild and repair in the wake of natural disasters. It provides much-needed aid to our farmers across the country who have been hit by a tidal wave of harmful economic conditions.”

Maine’s House representatives both noted that the latest deal dropped a controversial suspension of the national debt ceiling, which had been included in an earlier plan backed by President-elect Donald Trump.

“The dysfunction and uncertainty we — and the American people — endured over the past few days thanks to Republicans, Donald Trump and Elon Musk was entirely avoidable,” Pingree said in a statement. “While far from perfect, the passage of this bipartisan funding package is essential to ensuring that the government remains operational, and that critical programs supporting hard-working Americans and their families continue uninterrupted.”

The accepted deal left out certain provisions of previous versions that Golden had opposed, including the debt-ceiling suspension and a proposed pay raise for members of Congress.

“Instead, we’re simply ensuring we avoid a disruptive and costly government shutdown, supporting those who have experienced natural disasters — including at home in Maine — and extending the Farm Bill to provide stability for American farmers,” Golden said in a statement. “This (Continuing Resolution) strikes the balance that we should have been aiming for all along.”

Pingree, a Democrat representing Maine’s 1st Congressional District, had earlier joined nearly all other Democrats and a few dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives in voting against a spending plan proposed by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday. Golden, D-2nd District, also voted against that plan.

That vote came after Trump and billionaire businessman Elon Musk urged Republicans to reject an earlier deal that would have funded the government through mid-March. Pingree was prepared to support that plan.

On Friday, Congress faced a midnight deadline to pass a spending plan or risk a government shutdown.

While Pingree celebrated the the passage generally, she was disappointed to see funding for health care provisions, including cancer research and substance abuse disorder treatment, cut from the version that passed.

She also criticized Republicans for attempting to block the process.

“I share the frustrations of many of my colleagues that, under Republican control, Congress has been unable to pass bipartisan agreements, let alone full-year funding bills,” Pingree said.

This story contains information from the Associated Press.