The House is set to vote on a measure backed by Speaker Kevin McCarthy that would keep the government open for another month at reduced spending levels.
would not be taken up by the Senate, which is working on its own bipartisan legislation to keep the government running beyond Saturday night, when funding expires. President Biden promised to veto the House bill on Friday, further sealing its fate. would fund the government through the end of October, while the Senate's version would keep operations going through Nov. 17.
The House voted to approve a rule allowing debate on the measure by a vote of 218 to 211 earlier Friday, but at least one Republican who voted in favor — Matt Gaetz of Florida — said he still intended to vote against the bill itself. Nearly a dozen far-right Republicans said they wouldn't support or were unlikely to support any continuing resolution. With just a four-seat majority in the House, McCarthy has struggled to craft a bill that would avoid a shutdown and attract majority support. Democrats have been united in opposition.force hundreds of thousands of federal employeesMembers of the conservative House Freedom Caucus sent a letter to McCarthy on Thursday demanding that he publicly reject the Senate bill.
"No Member of Congress can or should be expected to consider supporting a stop-gap funding measure without answers to these reasonable questions," the letter said. House Republicans passed three bills to fund the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and State for another year on Thursday night, but none of these have a chance of passing in the Senate.
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