The House on Friday passed a two-day, stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown and provide negotiators additional time to iron out details on a larger funding and COVID-19 relief package.<\/p>\n
Both parties are still feverishly negotiating a long-stalled coronavirus relief package, but acknowledged that they needed more time to iron out remaining sticking points.<\/p>\n
The House passed the continuing resolution (CR) by a vote of 320-60. House Democrats unveiled the measure to keep the government open through Sunday less than eight hours before current funding expires at midnight.<\/p>\n
Senate GOP leaders are hoping to similarly move the CR through the upper chamber before the midnight deadline.<\/p>\n
But at least one senator,\u00a0Josh Hawley\u00a0(R-Mo.), threatened earlier in the day to block passage of the bill unless congressional leaders provided a detailed update on the coronavirus relief negotiations. He later backed down and said that he would allow the stopgap bill to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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