Johnson says short-term government funding bill 'solves the problem'

Speaker Johnson unveils bill to avert government shutdown

House Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a new short-term funding bill that would avert a potential government shutdown. In order for the bill to pass, it must have bipartisan support. NBC’s Yamiche ...

NBC News - 2d

Trump, Johnson on Rep. Massie's stance against plan to avoid government shutdown

President Trump is slamming Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie over his position on the continuing resolution to keep the government funded. Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will have enough ...

CBS News - 12h

Speaker Mike Johnson unveils funding bill one week before potential shutdown

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Saturday unveiled a stopgap funding bill that would avert a shutdown at the end of next week and keep the government running through the end of September.

NBC News - 3d

House narrowly passes six-month funding bill as shutdown deadline nears

Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans voiced confidence that they can push through a stopgap funding bill and avert a government shutdown at the end of this week.

NBC News - 12h

Johnson looks to pass stopgap as government shutdown deadline looms

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is looking to lock down the votes to pass his stopgap funding bill and avert a government shutdown by Friday’s deadline, as he works to keep the lights on in Washington ...

The Hill - 1d

House Democrats have 'a lot of incentives' to vote against short-term funding bill

NBC Senior National Political Reporter Sahil Kapur joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss Speaker Johnson's plan to fund the government as top Democrats urge the House to reject the short-term funding ...

NBC News - 1d

Democrats ‘applying maximum hurt’ for ‘political gain’ in government funding fight: GOP lawmaker

President Trump is urging Republicans to support Speaker Mike Johnson’s short-term government funding bill. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the upcoming vote.

NBC News - 9h

Vance gives House GOP closing pitch on Trump-backed funding bill ahead of vote

Vice President Vance delivered a closing pitch in favor of Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) government funding bill during the House GOP’s private conference meeting Tuesday, hours before the lower ...

The Hill - 14h

House spending bill to avert shutdown faces hurdles in Senate

House Speaker Mike Johnson was able to squeeze a short-term government funding bill through a vote by a slimmest of margins. Attention now turns to the senators across the hall with a government ...

CBS News - 5h

Government funding bill passes House 217-213, heads to Senate for vote

The House narrowly passed a six-month funding bill that would prevent a government shutdown at the end of the week. The measure’s fate is uncertain in the Senate, where several Democrats will be ...

NBC News - 7h

House to vote on government funding bill as shutdown deadline approaches

The House is expected to vote Tuesday on a stopgap measure to keep the government funded through September, days before Friday's shutdown deadline.

CBS News - 15h

House Republicans pass bill to avert government shutdown

The House on Tuesday passed a funding bill to avert an end-of-the-week government shutdown, teeing up the measure for consideration in the Senate. The chamber cleared the continuing resolution (CR) ...

The Hill - 8h

House votes to avoid government shutdown by passing temporary spending bill

The House of Representatives has passed a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown. The stopgap bill funds the government until Sept. 30. The measure increases defense spending by $6 ...

CBS News - 7h

Morning Report — This week: Funding suspense, tariff two-step, DOGE bites

In today’s issue: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) says he has the votes to dodge a possible government shutdown by next weekend. A floor vote could happen Tuesday under his plan, which envisions ...

The Hill - 1d

Read: House Republicans' stopgap funding bill

House Republicans over the weekend rolled out a short-term government funding plan, kicking off a crucial stretch for GOP leadership to lock down support ahead of Friday's shutdown deadline. The ...

The Hill - 1d

Bills to rise by 80p to fund discounts for homes near pylons

Households near new pylons are set to get up to £250 a year off their energy bills, under government plans.

BBC News - 1d

D.C. Mayor calls out ‘$1.1 billion problem’ in House GOP stopgap plan

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on Monday sounded alarm over what she described as a "$1.1 billion problem" in a plan rolled out by House Republicans to keep the government funded beyond ...

The Hill - 1d

House GOP releases stopgap bill to avert shutdown

House GOP leaders on Saturday unveiled a stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, that will fund the government at current levels through September 2025.

ABC News - 3d

Live updates: House sends funding bill to Senate; Ontario backs off power surcharge

Republicans in Congress are racing to pass a GOP stopgap funding bill by 11:59 p.m. Friday to avert a government shutdown. The House on Tuesday passed the measure 217-213, sending it to the Senate ...

The Hill - 8h

Democrats release their own stopgap funding bill as House GOP plows forward

Congressional Democrats rolled out their own short-term funding patch to keep the government running beyond Friday's shutdown deadline, as House Republicans barrel forward with a Trump-endorsed ...

The Hill - 1d

House unveils stopgap measure to keep government funded, avert shutdown

The continuing resolution bill will go to the House Rules Committee on Monday and a floor vote is expected Tuesday.

CBS News - 3d

House GOP budget plan would cut domestic spending by $13 billion

House Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled his plan to avert a government shutdown by Friday night. The short-term stopgap bill would fund the government until Sept. 30, increase defense spending by ...

CBS News - 1d

Shutdown fears grow as House Republicans battle over funding bill

House Speaker Mike Johnson is set to hold a vote on a GOP spending proposal, but opposition from both parties puts its passage in doubt. With Democrats vowing to vote against it and some ...

CBS News - 16h

Trump-district Democrats face risky vote on GOP spending bill

House Democrats in districts carried by President Trump are confronting a potentially risky vote next week when GOP leaders are expected to put their partisan government funding bill on the floor. ...

The Hill - 2d

Sen. Slotkin wants assurances Trump will spend money 'the way Congress intends' funding bill vote

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., on Sunday said that she would "withhold" her decision on how to vote to fund the government until Congress gets assurances from the Trump administration that money ...

NBC News - 2d

House set to vote on stopgap spending bill with government shutdown deadline days away

The House is set to vote on a continuing resolution that would avert a shutdown and keep the government funded through September. CBS News congressional reporter Taurean Small has more.

CBS News - 14h

Live updates: Trump says he hates to 'predict things like that’ when asked if he expects a recession

House Republicans on Saturday unveiled a 99-page, six-month stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown and increase defense funding while seeking cuts for nondefense programs, which will ...

The Hill - 2d

US will be ‘central’ to climate fight even without Trump, says Cop30 president

André Corrêa do Lago suggests US organisations can play a constructive role even if government limits participation. The US will be “central” to solving the climate crisis despite Donald Trump’s ...

The Guardian - 1d

How House Republicans plan to keep the government funded

President Trump is endorsing a House Republican plan to keep the government funded until September through a continuing resolution. CBS News' Taurean Small reports.

CBS News - 1d

Senate Democrats leery of blocking GOP bill fear shutdown politics have changed

Senate Democrats are leery of blocking a House Republican-drafted six-month government funding bill, fearing that a government shutdown may backfire on them politically by giving Elon Musk and the ...

The Hill - 19h

House funding vote puts Senate Democrats in a bind: From the Politics Desk

Senate Democrats are in a politically precarious position after the House passed a stopgap bill to avoid a government shutdown.

NBC News - 6h

Speaker Johnson looks to jam Senate Democrats with bill to avert shutdown

Before Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can dare Senate Democrats to reject a Republican-crafted bill to avert an end-of-week shutdown, he has to pull off a feat: keeping his fractious, razor-thin ...

The Hill - 19h

3 groups to watch in the final push to fund the government

The government will shut down next Saturday morning unless Congress can rally around a funding measure by the end of the week, setting up the first big legislative spending fight of President ...

The Hill - 3d

These Republicans may vote against plan to fund the government

Republican Kentucky lawmakers Thomas Massie and Rand Paul may oppose the plan to pass a continuing resolution as a stopgap to fund the government until September. This comes as President Trump ...

CBS News - 1d

UK minister in ‘active discussions’ with pension funds to invest more in private markets

Torsten Bell says government is ‘encouraging, not instigating’ investment in wider range of assets

Financial Times - 11h

Sunday shows preview: House GOP unveils bill to avert shutdown; Trump's tariffs teeter

House Republicans have unveiled a 99-page, six-month stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown and increase defense funding while seeking cuts for nondefense programs, which is likely to ...

The Hill - 3d

Sony Music says over 75,000 items removed in battle against AI deepfakes

Label uses scale of problem to argue against UK government’s proposed loosening of rules

Financial Times - 3d

Trump lauds 'very good funding bill' after House GOP unveils CR

President Trump was quick to throw his support behind the House GOP's stopgap funding bill Saturday afternoon, calling it a "very good funding bill." "The House and Senate have put together, under ...

The Hill - 3d

USDA halts more than $1B in funding for local food banks, schools

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it has nixed more than $1 billion in funding for local food banks and schools by terminating two programs that aid state, tribal and territorial ...

The Hill - 13h

Johnson says short-term government funding bill 'solves the problem'

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