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The House approved a 370-48 stopgap funding patch to keep federal agencies funded through December 11, averting a pre-election government shutdown; the measure also delays the intoxicating hemp ban and blocks the White House from finalizing an OMB grantmaking rule, drawing mixed reactions from Republicans and Democrats as year-end budget battles loom after the midterms.
House GOP leaders moved a fast-track stopgap funding bill to avert a potential government shutdown, but several hard-liners threaten to derail the rule over a hemp-product ban and abortion-funding concerns, risking a freeze on floor business for the week as leadership weighs attendance and the Ways and Means panel’s next steps on a broader highway bill in a looming lame-duck session.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the five-year highway bill is likely to be a lame-duck priority, with the House poised to clear a Senate-passed extension of current surface transportation authorities and press for a full reauthorization by year’s end; progress hinges on Ways and Means finalizing tax provisions and the bill’s committee path since Senate text hasn’t been released, and the Dec. 11 extension provides more time. In other updates, Everton Blair was sworn in to the House, expanding Democrats’ margin for party‑line votes, with Aisha Wahab scheduled to be sworn in soon; Jahana Hayes is weighing a bid for the Education and Workforce Committee leadership; and Republicans continue maneuvering around a stopgap funding bill, hemp language, and other tactics, including a Johnson‑Musk meeting to bolster campaign resources.
The Senate passed a 90-6 stopgap funding bill to fund federal agencies through Dec. 11 that includes language blocking the White House OMB from finalizing its controversial proposed grantmaking rule. The House must decide whether to adopt the Senate version; the House has produced a clean stopgap without the blocking language. The dispute centers on giving political appointees control over grant funding, with potential lawsuits looming and a crowded path forward as lawmakers weigh the implications for research grants.
The Senate passed a bipartisan continuing-resolution funding bill to keep federal agencies funded through December 11, forcing the House to take action to prevent a shutdown on Oct. 1. The measure blocks finalizing the White House’s plan to let political appointees oversee grant approvals during the stopgap and includes restrictions on new funding for ICE and the Border Patrol, signaling a December clash over grants and immigration policy. The White House supports the Senate plan, while the House already passed its own stopgap, which lacks the funding increases requested by the administration.
Senate Republicans are debating a White House–backed one-month delay to the hemp-derived THC ban as part of a stopgap funding bill; Sen. Budd's amendment to remove the delay is gaining support, while White House liaison James Braid pledged no further delays beyond the measure. The dispute highlights GOP infighting ahead of votes and the August recess, with a separate clash over Sen. Cruz's college sports bill also in play.
The White House is pushing a three-week delay to the intoxicating hemp ban as part of a bipartisan stopgap funding bill, a move that Republicans are vocally criticizing because the delay would affect a hemp business run by a family member of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
The Senate released a bipartisan stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown, funding agencies through Dec. 11 at current levels, and includes a rider that blocks Trump from finalizing plans to put political appointees in charge of grant approvals for the duration of the patch; the measure also imposes immigration-enforcement funding constraints, omits major military boosts, and reflects negotiations aimed at pushing broader talks until after the midterms.
Republicans in the House and Senate are mired in internal fights over a summer funding plan, with the House pushing a stopgap bill and partisan add-ons while Democrats resist, raising the risk of a government shutdown before the midterms. The filibuster remains a sticking point, and Trump’s push on voter-ID legislation deepens divisions as lawmakers race to avert a funding gap with a two-month window before August recess.
The House passed a clean stopgap funding bill to extend federal operations through Dec. 4 in a largely party-line 220-205 vote, aiming to avert a September funding lapse and pressure Senate Democrats while avoiding new policy riders. The measure moves to the Senate, where leaders are weighing a version with White House anomalies or a separate reconciliation path, and Democrats criticized the move as bypassing bipartisan negotiations. The broader update batch also highlights Cornyn threatening to block ambassadors over AIDS funding, Rep. Cleo Fields’ decision not to seek reelection, and forthcoming Senate debates on related funding and governance issues.
The House narrowly advances the $1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act as Republicans attach conservative amendments and the SAVE America Act, while Democrats oppose the bill’s price tag and Iran-war posture; the package faces hundreds of amendments and a broader GOP push for a stopgap funding bill and a reconciliation framework to fund government and defense, with additional notes on committee changes and ethics rules.
The White House has sent Congress a list of funding “anomalies”—specific exceptions it wants included in any stopgap bill before the Sept. 30 shutdown—to boost military health, national security systems, parks operations, and FEMA disaster spending. House Republicans are pressing a clean stopgap through Dec. 4 that excludes these anomalies, while Senate leaders weigh a patch that could incorporate some of them. Beyond funding, lawmakers are also grappling with Iran-war funding, budget reconciliation prospects, and a flurry of intra‑party and cross‑chamber negotiations as summer recess approaches.
The largest federal workers union, AFGE, urges lawmakers to pass a clean continuing resolution to end the government shutdown, which has furloughed and affected hundreds of thousands of federal employees, highlighting the political impasse over healthcare subsidies and calling for responsible leadership to prioritize American workers and stability.
The leader of America's largest federal workers union calls for an end to the prolonged government shutdown, urging lawmakers to pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government, pay affected workers, and resolve policy disputes through normal legislative processes amid ongoing political stalemate.
Speaker Mike Johnson revealed a plan to prevent a government shutdown next week by proposing a vote on four separate appropriations bills and potentially needing a stopgap funding bill to buy more time. Despite this strategy, concerns about a possible shutdown persist due to Congress's tight schedule and differences in the appropriations bills. Johnson opposes a year-long stopgap bill and expressed concerns about the GOP's negotiating position with the Democratic-led Senate.