Lawmakers Push Back on Stopgap Timeline
Appropriators are uniting around a plan for a short-term stopgap funding bill along with a set of three smaller final spending bills, even as President Trump requested the funding patch be extended through January 2026. The White House sent Congress a list of its requested “anomalies”—or changes to current funding levels—to include in a continuing resolution (CR) that lawmakers are widely expected to have to pass to avert a government shutdown. The request assumes a four-month continuing resolution, but lawmakers say the end date is a suggestion, not a directive, from the White House. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Sept. 10, 2025, that he opposes a clean stopgap spending bill to fund the US government. Without an agreement, the government will shut down on Oct. 1, 2025. Read more
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