Updated September 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM PDT

The House has voted 217 to 212 to approve a short-term spending bill to fund the government though Nov. 21. All but one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, voted against the measure. The bill now heads to the Senate where top Democrats insist they will block the bill as part of their push to use the bill to address expiring health care subsidies.

Congress has until Sept. 30 to fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters after the vote that a stop-gap is the "responsible thing to do" and accused Democrats of making the bill "a partisan exercise."

"If they choose to vote against his clean, completely non-partisan [spending bill], then they will be choosing to shut the government

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