House Republican leaders on Sept. 22 unveiled a short-term measure to fund the government through Dec. 20.
The stopgap measure is largely a “clean” continuing resolution, meaning a stopgap measure without partisan or controversial bill riders attached, though it includes additional funding for the Secret Service.
The bill was introduced eight days before the Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government and avoid a government shutdown.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a letter to colleagues that a continuing resolution “is the only option that remains” to prevent a government shutdown due to the Senate’s failure to pass any of the year’s 12 appropriations bills….