House Republicans advance funding stopgap, tee up vote this week

House Republicans on Wednesday advanced a funding stopgap to avert an end-of-month government shutdown, teeing up a final vote on the continuing resolution (CR) later this week and setting up a showdown with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Democrats.

The rule advancing the funding stopgap was approved in a party-line 216-210 vote, with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) voting present.

The spending measure revealed Tuesday would fund the...

Government shutdown odds go up after party leaders exchange fire

The odds of a government shutdown are rising after Democratic leaders on Tuesday swiftly rejected a 91-page stopgap funding proposal unveiled by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and fellow House Republicans because it was put together with little Democratic input and doesn’t extend generous health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Democrats voted more than a dozen times to extend federal funding with short-term “clean” continuing resolutions when former Presid...

Former CDC leaders to blast Kennedy at hearing

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Republicans charge ahead with GOP funding bill, raising shutdown odds

House Republican leaders are charging ahead with a GOP plan to extend government funding, rejecting Democratic pleas for bipartisan talks and escalating the odds of a shutdown at the end of the month. 

Behind Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), GOP leaders on Tuesday unveiled a short-term spending package, known as a continuing resolution (CR), to extend government funding largely at current levels through Nov. 21. 

The package includes $30 million in new fund...

Thune, Schumer trade blows over looming shutdown

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) traded shots at each other Tuesday over who would be to blame for a government shutdown, something that both leaders indicated is becoming more likely with each passing day.

“I’m sure you’re all asking the question, are we or are we not going to have a Schumer shutdown? It sounds like from what he is indicating, that very may well happen,” Thune told reporters after the weekly Repub...

Schumer, Jeffries vow to oppose GOP government funding plan

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) released a joint statement Tuesday vowing to oppose a GOP-crafted bill funding government until Nov. 21, taking Washington a big step closer to a government shutdown.

“The House Republicans-only spending bill fails to meet the needs of the American people and does nothing to stop the looming healthcare crisis,” Schumer and Jeffries said in a joint statement shortly after Speaker...

Republicans release stopgap government funding plan

House Republicans on Tuesday released text for a stopgap bill that funds the government at current levels through Nov. 21 and boosts security funding for public officials.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the House plans to vote “by Friday” on the measure, saying it “will keep the government funded and operating at current levels while we continue all this work” on regular appropriations bills.

In addition to extending funding, it meets the Trump administration’s...

Thune: Expiring ACA subsidies will be ‘addressed’ but not on stopgap funding  

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters on Tuesday that Republican leaders are open to addressing the expiration of health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, but that those talks will happen later this year.

He argued that the Sept. 30 short-term government funding measure needs to be kept “clean” of controversial policy riders.

Thune acknowledged that there’s growing support among Republicans in both the Senate and House to preve...