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The House has passed a stopgap funding bill just hours before a midnight deadline to avert a federal government shutdown. It now heads to the Senate for approval.
The latest plan would extend government funding into March and includes disaster relief and farming provisions, but does not include a suspension of the debt limit, which President-elect Donald Trump has been demanding that Republicans address.
Lawmakers have been scrambling for a new deal after yesterday’s failure of a plan backed by Trump, who torpedoed a bipartisan deal earlier this week. Trump has said if there has to be a government shutdown, he wants it to occur while Joe Biden is president. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he is “confident” the Senate will pass the stopgap spending bill to prevent a federal government shutdown.
“The House has overwhelmingly passed a bill to keep the government open and I’m confident the Senate will pass it as well. We hope to get it passed as soon as possible,” the New York Democrat wrote in a post on X.
Throughout the government funding negotiating process, particularly when lawmakers reached an impasse, House Speaker Mike Johnson returned to a similar joke: He welcomed anyone else who could get 218 votes.
It takes 218 votes to establish a majority in the lower chamber — and to hold on to the speakership — when every member casts a ballot. “He said that a lot. He does crack that joke quite a bit,” GOP Rep. David Valadao, a key House appropriator who was at the negotiating table, told CNN.
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