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The Hill reports: The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through September, avoiding a government shutdown only hours before funding was due to lapse. President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law. The final vote was 54-46. Two members of the Democratic caucus voted for the bill, …

The Washington Post reports: The Senate has voted 62-38 to advance a measure Friday to extend federal funding levels through September and avert a government shutdown set to begin just after midnight. The Senate will now vote on three Democratic amendments offered by Sens. Jeff Merkley (Oregon), Tammy Duckworth (Illinois) and Chris Van Hollen (Maryland). All three of those measures …

NBC News reports: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Thursday he would vote to advance Republicans’ six-month funding bill that passed the House to avert a government shutdown Friday night. The move represents a major concession from Schumer, yielding to the GOP measure just one day after he vowed that Democrats wouldn’t allow it to pass. It means the …

The New York Times reports: Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, says that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to pass the bill the House approved on Tuesday to avert a shutdown and fund the government through Sept. 30. Schumer says that Senate Democrats are united around a 30 day stopgap bill “that will …

USA Today reports: The Republican-controlled House approved a spending bill Tuesday supported by President Donald Trump to fund the government for the next six months. The House voted 217-213 along party lines to approve the bill, with Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky the only Republican to oppose it. The vote dares Senate Democrats to oppose the GOP priorities and risk …

Politico reports: Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Tuesday morning he expects House Republicans “are going to pass” a bill to fund the government later in the day, ahead of the looming March 14 deadline to avoid a shutdown. His comments came as Vice President JD Vance is attending the House GOP Conference’s weekly meeting to rally members ahead …

“Well, first, just to set the stage for this, I want to make it clear that Republicans control the House, Republicans control the Senate, and they, of course, control the White House. If there is a government shutdown, it will be because Republicans want one. That’s number one. Number two, we are already in a government shutdown or at least …

Axios reports: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his leadership deputies said Friday they will not lend their support to the stopgap spending bill being proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Democrats are holding out for language that will restrict Trump and DOGE from being able to slash government programs already authorized and funded by Congress. House Democrats from across …

NOTUS reports: Lawmakers are scrambling to avoid a government shutdown, as members of both parties say they don’t want funding to lapse next week. But one person might not mind if Congress misses the deadline: Elon Musk. “Sounds great,” he wrote last week on X of a potential shutdown. Musk has already demonstrated his ability to derail Republican leaders’ plans …

USA Today reports: Federal funding dries up at the end of the day on March 14. Lawmakers acknowledge that passing full appropriations bills are unlikely given the time crunch, and they are preparing a funding extension known as a continuing resolution in the hopes of buying more time. Republican leaders have floated the idea of a long-term extension that would …

“In a few weeks, the Republicans are going to try to figure out how they move forward, and they have, for the last two years, needed Democratic votes for every single continuing resolution, and they should not count on that this time. They are simply trying to dismantle the government. So yes, look, if we have to take steps to …

NOTUS reports: Republicans are already staring down the possibility of a politically disastrous government shutdown, with funding set to run out on March 14 and lawmakers seeing little reason for any optimism. “The clock is ticking and running away from us right now,” senior appropriator Rep. Steve Womack told NOTUS on Thursday. The March 14 deadline, House Appropriations Chair Tom …

The Associated Press reports: Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, dropping Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. The House approved Johnson’s new bill overwhelmingly, 366-34. The Senate worked into the night to pass it, 85-11, …

“The other thing that’s important in this, Shannon, is whether or not Republicans carry most of the freight in this. House speaker Mike Johnson, he has been under serious fire about this handling of this interim spending bill over the past few weeks. And if you have more Democrats support this bill than Republicans, that is kind of part and …

ABC News reports: With a government shutdown deadline just hours away, Republican congressional leaders on Friday scrambled to come up with a third spending proposal. An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier this week by President-elect Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk. Then on Thursday night, the House failed to pass a revamped plan that included Trump’s explosive demand …

Fox News reports: House lawmakers are set to soon vote on a bill to avert a partial government shutdown after a similar measure backed by President-elect Trump failed on Thursday. Congress is scrambling for a path forward as the clock ticks closer to the federal funding deadline, with a partial shutdown expected just after midnight Saturday if no action is …

Politico reports: House Republicans voted in their closed-door conference meeting to pursue a funding plan that will require Democratic votes and strips out a debt limit measure President-elect Donald Trump is pushing, according to more than a dozen Republicans leaving the meeting. The plan will also include a one-year farm bill extension and the $110 billion disaster aid package Republicans …

CNN reports: As Christmas approaches and an expected record number of people across the country set off on their journeys, they may encounter travel trouble: winter weather combined with a possible government shutdown that could leave TSA agents and air traffic controllers working without a paycheck. More than 119 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles from …

The Hill reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Republicans have arrived at a plan C to avert a shutdown and the House will vote Friday morning on the legislation. “Yeah, yeah, we have a plan,” Johnson said Friday morning as he entered the Capitol. “We’re expecting votes this morning, so you all stay tuned. We’ve got a plan.” He did …

“Look, I’ll say one thing. The Democrats just voted to shut down the government, even though we had a clean CR, because they didn’t want to give the president negotiating leverage during his first term — during the first year of his new term. And number two, because they would rather shut down the government and fight for global censorship. …