House Republicans passed a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.
In a mostly-partisan vote, the bill passed in a 217-212 vote, with Republicans Victoria Spartz (IN), and Thomas Massie (KY) voting against it. Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat from Maine, voted in favor of the measure.
President Trump urged the House to pass the bill in a Thursday evening Truth Social post. “House Republicans are taking a very important Vote to pass a CLEAN TEMPORARY FUNDING BILL. The Leader of the Democrats, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, wants to shut the Government down,” he wrote. “Republicans want the Government to stay open. Every House Republican should UNIFY, and VOTE YES!”
House Speaker Mike Johnson said this week that the “short-term, clean continuing resolution” will “keep the government funded and operating at current levels while we continue all this work and doing our jobs and getting the remaining bills done.”
“This will not be a partisan CR, it’ll be a clean, short-term continuing resolution, end of story,” he reiterated. “And it’s interesting to me that some of the same Democrats who decried government shutdowns under President Biden appear to have no heartache whatsoever at walking our nation off that cliff right now. I hope they don’t. I hope that they’ll work with us so we can all do our jobs here. We get a short-term CR done, complete the appropriations bill, and get back to the regular order that we have all seen as necessary so we can be good stewards of taxpayers’ funds.”
The Senate is expected to consider the bill on Friday afternoon.
