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Posted on 07/23/2026 12:00:18 PM PDT by Angelino97
The House moved Tuesday to head-off a potential government shutdown before this fall’s critical midterm elections by passing a bill to fund the federal government through Dec. 4.
The deadline for action is more than two months away, but House GOP leaders are not leaving to chance another possible shutdown souring the mood of voters shortly before they go to the polls. House Speaker Mike Johnson dared Democrats to vote against the bill, and if they did, “then they alone are going to own the chaos that ensues if the government shuts down after September 30.”
The House passed the measure by a mostly party-line vote of 220-205.
It’s highly unusual for Congress to pass a stopgap funding bill months before the end of the fiscal year. Lawmakers normally act just days or even hours before the deadline. But once lawmakers leave town this week, the House is scheduled to be in session for only 16 more days before the funding deadline.
GOP leadership is laying the groundwork to spend most of that time on another priority: a long-shot, party-line bill that spends $95 billion to boost defense, aid farmers and get portions of President Donald Trump’s elections overhaul bill passed into law.
“I think it’s kind of smart to go ahead and take the potential chaos of a shutdown off the table because the amount of damage that does to the American citizens,” said Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga. He said he believed a shutdown “probably works to the advantage of Democrats politically,” and he blamed the press for such a scenario.
Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the stopgap measure, which would generally fund agencies at current spending levels.
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I’m so old I remember back when they actually passed a yearly budget.
Everything is temporary when you have a political football to use.
The Senate still has to be convinced...and it takes 60 votes.
Yes, but whatever the House passes still must go through the Senate, which is quite possibly the most useless legislative body in all of human history. (Yep, I'm using hyperbole to make the point.)
They’ll use reconciliation. Only nneeds 51.
Frankly, all Senate votes should only be 51.
Cloture is retarded.
The last thing you want to speed up is the legislature.
Unless of course the Democrats have a Senate majority.
What if we... go with on this... do an actual budget as required by law? I think you would see an enthusiastic reception in the mid-terms if people perceived Washington was trying to do the right thing... even slightly.
Americans only pay attention to federal budgeting if there's a government "shutdown" and the media reports on the various services that have been suspended.
No SAFE Act I don’t care if it shuts down.
THEY HAVE THE MOST PAY FOR THE LEAST DAYS WORKED....
Presented correctly, I think there would be a strong sigh of relief seeing something work as it is supposed to.
Agree...That other Blue thing is, too.
Or he just doesnt want to interrupt his vacation. Gotta work on that golf swing....
RE: I’m so old I remember back when they actually passed a yearly budget.
It was 1997.
And these songs were on your Pontiac car cassette player:
“Wannabe” by the Spice Girls”, “Foolish Games” by Jewell and “Candle in the Wind” by Elton John. And you drove into the theater complex lot to go in to see Jerry Maguie, Titanic, Con Air or Men in Black.
The U.S. Congress last passed all of its required regular individual appropriations bills on time for fiscal year 1997.
Wishful thinking by Johnson. No Democrats will support the bill, except maybe Lurch.
What if we... go with on this... do an actual budget as required by law? I think you would see an enthusiastic reception in the mid-terms if people perceived Washington was trying to do the right thing... even slightly.
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To do that, Republicans would need to have been preparing for it since Trump took office again. We would be foolish to rely on either party to something constructive with each other.
A clean bill might help, but that’s not what Republicans have produced.
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