House GOP votes to punt government shutdown battle to after November midterms

The House of Representatives voted connected Tuesday nighttime to punt nan threat of another authorities shutdown until aft nan November midterm elections.

House lawmakers passed a measure to widen nan existent fiscal year's backing levels until Dec. 4 via a measurement called a continuing solution (CR). It would widen respective weeks into fiscal twelvemonth (FY) 2027, which originates connected Oct. 1.

It's a triumph for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republicans, who are looking to debar a messy national spending conflict correct earlier what's expected to beryllium an uphill conflict to clasp their razor-thin majority.

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Speaker of nan House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks pinch reporters successful nan U.S. Capitol connected June 10, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The existent fiscal twelvemonth saw nan longest authorities shutdown successful history, lasting from Oct. 1, 2025 until Nov. 12, 2025, arsenic Senate Democrats blockaded GOP-led backing priorities for weeks successful protestation of spending cuts to national healthcare programs.

And Republicans are informing that Democrats would almost surely origin different authorities shutdown correct earlier nan predetermination if nan conflict is not punted until aft nan early November midterms.

"Unfortunately, fixed that Democrats person already forced nan 2 longest government  shutdowns successful American history successful this Congress, 1 of them for 78 days, they've already demonstrated they don't attraction what benignant of symptom they inflict connected nan American people," Johnson told reporters connected Tuesday. "They've shown there's thing they'd emotion much than a government shutdown arsenic tens of millions of Americans caput to nan polls successful November."

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., told reporters Tuesday that he would ballot against nan measure on pinch nan apical Democrat connected nan House Appropriations Committee, nan sheet tasked pinch overseeing yearly national spending.

"I deliberation that location are immoderate drafting errors wrong nan CR that springiness Customs and Border Patrol elasticity to move money around. The management said that each of that was funded wrong reconciliation 2.0. and I deliberation they're creating different opportunities to transportation funds," Aguilar said.

But moreover pinch nan House's victory, it's not clear that nan conflict will beryllium complete earlier September.

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The GOP-led Senate is moving connected its ain people connected backing extension, pinch sources acquainted pinch nan process telling Fox News Digital that appropriators were crafting their ain CR. They judge nan House’s merchandise lacked cardinal extensions to definite programs that are expected to tally retired of backing travel nan Sept. 30 deadline.

Those programs, known arsenic anomalies, were shipped to nan Senate from nan White House connected Monday.

Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., a personnel of nan Senate Appropriations Committee, told Fox News Digital that Republicans and Democrats, for nan clip being, were working together to thwart a shutdown.

He hoped to get nan CR onto nan level arsenic soon arsenic this week, fixed that nan House is group to time off Washington, D.C., by nan extremity of nan week for a agelong August recess.

Chair of nan House Democratic Caucus Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., speaks during a property convention pursuing a caucus gathering successful Washington D.C., United States connected January 10, 2023.  (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

"Look, we admit nan House moving guardant pinch theirs. It's, you know, very clean," Hoeven said. "There are conscionable a fewer issues that we deliberation request to beryllium nan rest. Because, obviously, we request to get Democrats connected committee pinch us, correct now, they're moving pinch us."

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The move has nan afloat blessing of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.

"I deliberation it's going to beryllium really important that we fig retired a way guardant to get a bipartisan statement to money nan authorities that will support authorities unfastened and guarantee that authorities labor are getting paid," Thune said. "And that is thing that I intend to bring to nan level for a ballot earlier nan August break.