House Passes Funding Bill to Avert Government Shutdown

The House passed a government funding bill Thursday to avoid a government shutdown.

The House passed H.R. 5305, the continuing resolution (CR), with 254 votes in favor and 175 votes in opposition to. The vote featured strong House Republican opposition to the bill.

The continuing resolution will fund the federal government until December 3. It is not going to raise the debt ceiling, as Senate Republicans continue to combat against raising the debt ceiling whereas Democrats wish to spend $3.5 trillion on a reconciliation bill that has little to do with infrastructure.

The Senate passed the bill with bipartisan support, though Senate Democrats shot down Republican amendments.

The bill goes to President Joe Biden’s desk, where the 46th president will probably sign the bill to avert the government shutdown. The federal government would have shut down if the government didn’t receive funding by the end of Thursday.

President Joe Biden hands a pen to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi after signing a bill in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, June 30, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)