House GOP leaders are aiming to pass a stopgap spending bill this week that funds the government through Nov. 20, GOP sources told The Hill, as lawmakers face an end-of-the-month shutdown deadline.
Text of the continuing resolution (CR) has yet to be released, though Republicans have said it will largely be "clean."
House leaders face a tight time crunch to pass the plan by the week’s end, with lawmakers scheduled to leave Washington next week for the Rosh Hashanah holiday.
The strategy, however, sets up a showdown with Democrats who have called for any stopgap to include major concessions on health care as a condition of their votes.
"Partisan legislation that continues the unprecedented Republican assault on healthcare is not a clean spending bill. It’s a dirty one," House Minority L