House GOP Pushes Funding Gambit Day Ahead of Shutdown Deadline
- House to vote on bare-bones spending plan to avert shutdown
- Senate leaders must decide whether to accept House plan
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House Republican leaders quelled most of the squabbles among GOP lawmakers over a stopgap funding bill and were moving toward a vote, making a bid to force the Senate to accept their trimmed-down version of the plan to avert a government shutdown.
The House Rules Committee sent to the House floor a measure that would maintain funding for government operations through Jan. 19 and provide extra funds for some Pentagon expenses and health programs. It also approved rules for considering separate legislation to provide $81 billion to assist recovery from hurricanes and wildfires. A House vote was scheduled for Thursday afternoon.