House Republicans to vote on 45-day, clean stopgap funding bill
by Emily Brooks and Mychael Schnell - 09/30/23 11:18 AM ET
The House will vote Saturday on a 45-day “clean” stopgap funding bill that includes money for disaster relief, a major turn in strategy for Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) ahead of a midnight shutdown deadline.
The clean continuing resolution (CR) will come up for a vote around noon, and would require support from two-thirds of the House for passage because it is being considered under a fast-tracked mechanism called suspension of the rules. That means it would rely heavily on Democratic support to pass.
It will not have border policy changes, a non-starter for Democrats, or funds for Ukraine that some Republicans opposed.
McCarthy announced the plan following a nearly two-hour closed-door conference meeting.
“We will put a clean funding stopgap on the floor to keep government open for 45 days for the House and Senate to get their work done,” McCarthy told reporters after the meeting. “We will also, knowing what had transpired through the summer, the disasters in Florida, the horrendous fire in Hawaii, and also the disasters in California and Vermont. We will put the supplemental portion that the president asked for in disaster there too.”
“Keeping the government open while we continue to do our work to end the wasteful spending and the wokeism and most important, secure our border,” he added.
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