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Current and former FDA officials said the concessions became a yearslong practice rather than a stopgap measure and that the protections put in place by the agency were not sufficient.

But with the right safeguards, some feel chatbots could be a useful stopgap in an overloaded mental health system.

Democrats do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when they split over the GOP’s stopgap measure to avoid a federal government shutdown.

They do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when Democrats split over the GOP’s stopgap measure to avoid a federal government shutdown.

The stopgap funding bill passed in the Senate 54-46, as two Democrats joined all but one Republican senator in voting yes.