The House passed a stopgap package Friday evening that pushes the government funding deadline to March, as Congress races to avoid a looming deadline that would shut down the government in six hours.
The package passed 366-34, with the support of 196 Democrats and 170 Republicans. It now moves to the Senate, where leaders are hoping to lock in an agreement to fast-track final passage of the measure, racing against the midnight government shutdown deadline.
The package’s passage seemingly ends a chaotic 48 hours, after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump worked to spike a previously-negotiated bipartisan funding agreement. The package that passed the House includes more than $110 billion in disaster aid and a one-year farm bill extension but is stripped of Trump’s demand: a debt limit extension.
Musk weighed in just before the vote, commending Speaker Mike Johnson for having done “a good job here, given the circumstances,” while noting that many previously agreed upon policies were left out of the measure the House ultimately passed. “It went from a bill that weighed pounds to a bill that weighed ounces,” Musk posted on X, his social media platform.