The Washington Post reports, US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA 4) and Congressional Democrats have negotiated a stopgap funding bill to avert an October 1 federal government shutdown. The proposed continuing resolution “extends federal funding at current rates until Dec. 20. It includes an additional $232 million to boost security around the presidential election after agents thwarted a recent suspected assassination attempt on (Donald] Trump, and it green-lights faster spending from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to aid natural disaster victims.”
Most Republicans are expected to vote against the measure, which doesn’t contain voter registration restrictions Trump wanted it to include and without which he was prepared to see the government close down just weeks before the election.
Associated Press and POLITICO also cover this story.