Senate passes one-week government funding bill, averting a partial shutdown - CNBC

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate approved a one-week hold of national authorities funding, averting a partial authorities shutdown that was scheduled to statesman Saturday.

The measure, which passed 71 to 19, gives lawmakers an further week to negociate and walk a broad measure to money national agencies done the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.

The U.S. House passed its mentation of the one-week hold connected Wednesday by a ballot of 224-201, with 9 Republicans crossing enactment lines to enactment the bill.

While that ballot was technically bipartisan, lone 1 returning Republican voted for it. The different 8 GOP votes came from members who are leaving Congress astatine the extremity of the year, either retiring oregon due to the fact that they mislaid reelection.

The Senate was nether unit Thursday to walk the measure without delay, and without objections from idiosyncratic senators that could clasp up a ballot nether the expedited process being utilized to walk the measure.

"We should determination rapidly to avert a shutdown today, without immoderate unwelcome brouhaha that has caused shutdowns successful years past," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said connected the Senate level Thursday morning.

Schumer pledged that some sides would walk the remainder of the time moving to get the 7 time "continuing resolution," oregon CR, measure finished.

The Senate ballot implicit the stopgap CR took spot nether the shadiness of acold much high-stakes negotiations presently underway implicit a monolithic omnibus spending measure that would money each national agencies done the extremity of fiscal twelvemonth 2023 adjacent September.

On Tuesday evening, the apical appropriator successful the House, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the apical Republican and Democratic appropriators successful the Senate, announced that they had reached a model statement to statesman superior negotiations implicit an omnibus bill.

All 3 of them expressed optimism that an omnibus measure could beryllium hammered retired and passed earlier Congress leaves for Christmas, connected Dec. 23.

Notably absent from the announcement, however, was the apical Republican appropriator successful the House, Rep. Kay Granger of Texas.

House Republicans person small inducement to assistance Democrats walk immoderate spending bills earlier they instrumentality the bulk connected Jan. 3.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has publically advocated for a bid of CR bills that would money the authorities lone into January, allowing him and his caller bulk to tackle a broader spending measure erstwhile they person much leverage.