House to vote on 3-month funding extension to avoid shutdown (1 Viewer)

[Politics - CBSNews.com]

Washington — The House is set to vote Wednesday on a stopgap measure to keep the government funded for three months, after Speaker Mike Johnson embraced a clean temporary funding measure that will need support from Democrats to pass.

Last week, the House rejected Johnson's initial funding plan, which would have kept the government funded for around six months and was paired with a noncitizen voting measure that Democrats viewed as a nonstarter. After the setback, which was driven in part by his own party, the speaker said he would opt to bring up a...

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