Congress Buys Itself Another 45 Days

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Congress Buys Itself Another 45 Days

The House of Representatives passed a short-term spending bill in a bipartisan vote (the universal signal for it being a bad deal for taxpayers), preventing a government shutdown. Fox News reported that the bill extends funding for 45 days past the fiscal year end and includes $16 billion for disaster relief. Click here for a list of those who voted against the stopgap plan.

More from Fox News:

Republicans' previous CR proposals did not get any Democratic support, and failed after enough GOP hardliners opposed them. Holdouts argued that a CR on principle is an extension of the previous Democratically-held Congress' priorities, and is the antithesis of the House GOP majority's promise to pass 12 individual spending bills laying out conservative priorities in the next fiscal year.

But the majority of lawmakers on both sides have acknowledged that some kind of stopgap is needed to give them more time to cobble those deals together. The current fiscal year ends at midnight tonight, meaning that if no agreement is passed by the House and Senate, thousands of government employees will be furloughed and "nonessential" federal programs will grind to a halt.

And despite Democrats clamoring for a "clean" CR, it's not immediately clear if they will support the bill being put forward by the GOP now. 

RELATED: Senate passes stopgap measure in 88-9 vote, averting shutdown with three hours to spare (Fox News)

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