House passes a clean CR to fund the government through November, avoiding shutdown.
This morning the House passed a clean CR designed to fund the government through November, thereby avoiding the possibility of a shutdown at the end of this month. Democrats how vowed not to support it in the Senate.
The vote was 217-212, with one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, joining Republicans in voting yes. Two Republicans — conservative Reps. Tim Burchett of Tennessee and Victoria Spartz of Indiana — and all other Democrats voted against the bill.
The short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR, now heads to the Senate, where Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and other Democrats have vowed to defeat it and have offered their own competing funding plan.
The competing plan offered by Democrats includes a bunch of spending they know Republicans won’t support, such as restoring funding for public broadcasting.
It would permanently extend Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, as well as reverse Medicaid cuts enacted in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
It also addresses Trump funding cuts that have infuriated Democrats in recent months: It would lift the freeze on foreign aid funding that the White House is withholding through “pocket rescissions” and restore funding for public broadcasting.
Speaker Mike Johnson has been making the case that Republicans just want a little time to finish the budget through regular order. That’s why they passed a clean CR. He says Schumer’s counter offer is full of poison pills designed to force a government shutdown.
???? BREAKING: It’s just been exposed that Chuck Schumer and Democrats in Congress are demanding free health insurance for illegal aliens, half a billion dollars for NPR, and a $1.5 trillion spending increase in exchange for averting a government shutdown. NO WAY. STAND STRONG. pic.twitter.com/z4IsdmLj8t— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 19, 2025
So it seems pretty clear Democrats are committed to forcing a shutdown.
