House Republicans Release Short-Term Funding Bill Through Nov. 21

House Republicans released on Sept. 16 a bill to fund the government through Nov. 21.

The deadline to fund the government is Oct. 1, as the end of the fiscal year is Sept. 30.

Three House Republicans already announced their opposition to the bill before it was released.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) cannot afford to lose more than two Republicans on party-line votes.

“I am a ‘no’ unless it cuts spending, which I do not anticipate,” Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) told Politico.

He said he is likely to support the rule for debating the short-term funding bill “unless it has something funky in it.”

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) said she is a “no” on the measure, citing the timing.

“Thanksgiving CR (Continuing Resolution)–NO. I am willing to vote for a CR of any duration—short or long—the least damage to the Republic, but I cannot support one that ends funding right before a major holiday to jam us with an Omnibus. I’ve seen this playbook too many times,” she posted on X.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said the bill would fund the government at levels under the previous administration. A continuing resolution (CR) funds the government at current levels past Sept. 30.

“A CR does not pass any new funding requests for our districts. It is an extension of the Johnson/Schumer/Biden omnibus that I, and many of my conservative colleagues, originally voted ‘NO’ on. Congress should not pass a CR and hand our elected legislative power over to unelected OMB (Office of Management and Budget). That’s not how this works,” she posted on X.

Appearing on “Fox News Sunday” on Sept. 14, Johnson accused Democrats of not working with Republicans to fund the government.

“Democrats currently are playing games with this government funding idea; they’re trying to bring in extraneous issues. We’ve been working towards getting the government funding appropriations bills done in the House,” he said.

“Our Appropriations Committee worked, by the way, in bipartisan fashion, to get all 12 appropriations bills through the committee,” he said.

“We’ve gotten three of them passed off the House floor, and now we’ve voted just last week to go into a conference committee with the Senate to begin grinding this out. That’s how the process is supposed to work.”

Johnson said he is not looking for a government shutdown and that there might need to be a continuing resolution.

“So, if there’s anyone any Democrats who are trying to suggest that they want to shut the government down, we’re going to do everything possible to prevent that from happening. It does not behoove the country,” he said.

“And we may need a short gap funding measure, a CR for a short period of time, to allow the negotiations to continue,” he continued. “But it will be clean in its scope. And I surely hope the Democrats will not try to make this a big partisan fight.”

Johnson also said that additional funding for security for members of Congress will be in the bill.

Democrats have said they will not support a GOP party-line continuing resolution.

“The only way to avoid a shutdown is to work in a bipartisan way, with a bill that can get both Republican and Democratic votes in the Senate,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote in a Sept. 2 letter to colleagues.

Schumer accused Republicans of wanting to “go at it alone.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said, “House Democrats are very clear: We’re not down with that.”

“And so if what we see next month is simply a continuation of that reckless right-wing Republican approach, we won’t be down with it next month either.”

President Donald Trump has called for passing the continuing resolution.

“Congressional Republicans, including Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson, are working on a short-term ‘CLEAN’ extension of Government Funding to stop [Schumer] from shutting down the Government, ” he posted on Truth Social.

“In times like these, Republicans have to stick TOGETHER to fight back against the Radical Left Democrat demands, and vote ‘YES!’ on both Votes needed to pass a Clean CR this week out of the House of Representatives.”