House passes stopgap funding measure to avoid federal government shutdown

The House connected Friday passed a stopgap backing measurement to support the national authorities unfastened until astatine slightest mid-December.

The continuing solution measurement was approved by a 230-201 borderline with a majority-Democratic vote. The support came a time aft the Senate passed the aforesaid solution successful a down-to-the-wire vote.

President Joe Biden is expected to motion it into instrumentality aboriginal Friday.

If the solution had not been passed, the authorities would person unopen down owed to Friday evening's deadline for support of the upcoming national budget.

Funding successful the solution includes astir $12 cardinal successful exigency assistance for Ukraine, $18.8 cardinal for the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund, and $1 cardinal for heating and inferior assistance.

The bill, which volition money the authorities until December 16, needed to walk earlier negotiations for the last 2023 fund could continue.

"While I americium disappointed that we could not implicit afloat appropriations this month, I americium gladsome that we were capable to see cardinal backing provisions successful this continuing solution that code captious needs," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Friday.

The solution had stalled successful Congress until Thursday owed to objections by Republicans and progressive Democrats implicit connection that if approved would person sped up the national process for issuing permits for large vigor projects, including pipelines and electrical lines.

The measure moved guardant aft Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., agreed to onslaught the language.