Another CR is being teed up; House to vote on government shutdown

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The House is set to vote on legislation that would extend the deadlines for federal funding to March 8 and March 22, part of an agreement struck Wednesday between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to prevent a shutdown that would otherwise shutter about 20 percent of the federal government just after the stroke of midnight Saturday.

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The funding bill the House will vote on Thursday is designed to give lawmakers more time to finalize annual spending bills, or appropriations legislation. But it first must pass through an unusual process in the lower chamber that leaves it vulnerable to far-right Republicans who oppose the measure.

Without the support of a majority of the House GOP, the party’s rules say Johnson should not bring the vote to the floor. The last stopgap funding bill the House passed achieved that majority by just a single vote. And if the measure does have enough Republican support, it still also needs a two-thirds majority of the chamber to pass under a process that suspends normal procedural rules.

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