The Republican-led House of Representatives voted to pass a continuing resolution (CR) on Friday night just hours before a government shutdown.
The stopgap bill was the House’s third attempt at passing a package to fund the government this week. The CR passed 366-34. All 34 opposed to the bill were Republicans while Democrats voted in complete support of the stopgap measure. The bill now heads to the Democrat-controlled Senate, and then to the desk of President Joe Biden, who has signaled support for its passage.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called the bill a “necessary step to bridge the gap to put us into that moment where we can put our fingerprints on the final decisions on spending for 2025.”
Included in the spending bill is $10 billion in funding for disaster relief and billions more in farm aid. A debt limit increase, which was a demand of President-elect Donald Trump,…
