The House of Representatives is shortly voting on a stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks on plan to keep government open as Republicans work on full budgetvoted Saturday to pass a short-term spending bill aimed, moving to avoid a government shutdown if the Senate adopts the measure.
House lawmakers on both sides of the aisle broke out into applause in a rare moment of bipartisanship after the short-term bill known as a continuing resolution , passed 335 to 91. "We need more time to get the job done," McCarthy told reporters ahead of the vote. McCarthy said he did not want to"punish"or border agents for the House's failure to pass a budget that ends wasteful spending and addresses border security.
Republicans' previous CR proposals did not get any Democratic support, and failed after enough GOP hardliners opposed them. Holdouts argued that a CR on principle is an extension of the previous Democratically-held Congress' priorities, and is the antithesis of the House GOP majority's promise to pass 12 individual spending bills laying out conservative priorities in the next fiscal year.
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