john: michael weiss, editor of the insider, thank you very much. ael: sure, anytime. ♪ john: president biden signed a $1.2 trillion spending bill to fund more than half e federal government through the end of the current budget year on september 30. final passage came in the senate at about 2:00 a.m., averting a partial government shutdown. the measure includes a pay raise for the military and increased border security spending. not included -- aid for either israel or ukraine. lawmakers are expected to take up those two items in early april after a two week recess. egypt says about 7000 aid trucks are being denied entry to gaza as the united nations warns of imminent famine. on the egyptian side of the rafah border crossing, un secretary-general antonio guterres said blocki the aid deliveries is a "moral outrage." he said it was time to "truly flood gaza" with aid, as he put it, and called for an immediate ceasefire. a russian spacecraft blasted off from kazakhstan today, taking a crew of three to the international space station for a six-month sta