Republican leaders are preparing to release the text of a stopgap spending bill over the weekend to fund agencies through the end of the fiscal year.
Lawmakers have been unable to settle on final fiscal 2025 bills. Without a continuing resolution, the government would shut down after March 14.
“Given the deadline before us, we are pursuing every pathway to ensure a lapse in funding never occurs,” said House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.).
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President Donald Trump said in recent days he wanted a “clean” stopgap through September. That means Republicans and the administration are no longer seeking to codify cuts pushed by Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
