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House Passes Two-Month Stopgap as GOP Pushes $95 Billion Reconciliation Plan

Senate leaders say they will remake the House stopgap and Senate rules make the House’s reconciliation route for defense and SAVE Act funding uncertain.

A view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. U.S., September 19, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo/File Photo
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders depart after meeting with reporters as he tries to advance a spending package for the Iran war, farm aid and President Donald Trump's push for strict new voter ID requirements, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Overview

  • The House voted 220-205 Tuesday night to pass a continuing resolution that would keep the government funded at current levels through Dec. 4 and the bill has been sent to the Senate.
  • Republican leadership also advanced a $95 billion budget resolution intended to open reconciliation for roughly $73 billion in defense, $12–13 billion for farms and intelligence, and about $10 billion tied to the SAVE America Act voter‑ID measures.
  • Speaker Mike Johnson promised to merge the SAVE America Act with the NDAA to win hardliner support, but internal GOP objections over no offsets and content have left the package fragile in the House.
  • Senate leaders including John Thune and appropriators signaled they expect to rewrite the House CR and pursue a bipartisan stopgap, and the Senate parliamentarian and the Byrd Rule could strip many SAVE provisions from reconciliation.
  • If the Senate remakes the CR or blocks reconciliation, Congress may still face a late fall funding fight that would shift pressure back onto negotiators and could affect military operations, farm aid and election policy before midterms.