WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a short-term funding bill, averting the threat of a government shutdown until next month.

Trump signed the bill, which will extend funding through Dec. 20, hours before government funding was set to expire. The Senate, by a 74-20 vote, passed the short-term funding bill earlier in the day.

The stopgap spending bill would give negotiators four more weeks to try and break an impasse involving funding for Trump’s border wall project that has gridlocked progress on the 12 appropriations measures that fund about one-third of the government.

The measure contains an assortment of technical provisions to ensure that spending on the 2020 census can ramp up.