The US Congress has approved a stopgap funding bill to fund the government from October 1 through December 15, the Nature News Blog reports. October 1 is the beginning of the 2015 fiscal year.
The bill, the Nature News Blog notes, keeps the funding of federal agencies mostly flat at 2014 levels, but includes $88 million to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Under the stopgap measure, the budget of the US National Institutes of Health will remain at $30 billion — its 2014 budget level — and the National Science Foundation budget would stay at $7 billion, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budget is to increase.
President Obama is expected to sign the measure, the Nature News Blog adds. A more permanent funding bill will likely be put together after the November elections.