Congress will spend the next several days racing to pass a second stopgap funding measure in as many weeks — one that would avert a government shutdown but this time includes no supplemental funding for disaster victims.
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday released a short-term funding measure, known as a continuing resolution, that would punt the deadline for passing fiscal 2025 appropriations bills to Dec. 20 while omitting a farm bill extension and new money for disaster accounts.
The House Rules Committee will debate the bill Monday night, and House leaders hope to hold a vote as soon as Wednesday.
“While this is not the solution any of us prefer, it is the most prudent path forward under the present circumstances,” Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said in a letter to colleagues Sunday.
