The United States House of Representatives will vote on a deal to end the ongoing government shutdown this week, after the Senate yesterday approved the first stage of a deal to fund the government.
The shutdown began on 1 October. The Senate's bill would fund the government until the end of January, with eight Democratic senators siding with Republicans on a procedural vote to advance the deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump has also backed the deal to end the shutdown. “Based on everything I’m hearing, they haven’t changed anything [in a potential deal], and we have support from enough Democrats, and we’re going to be opening up our country.”
According to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a Republican, there will be an official 36-hour notice before the House votes on the deal later this week. The House has been out of session at Johnson’s direction since initially passing a funding proposal in late September.
The funding bill now must pass the Senate in another vote, which is scheduled for today, following its procedural approval yesterday. Johnson reportedly told House Republicans that he plans for a House vote on Wednesday if the Senate fully approves of the funding bill before then.
Earlier proposals to fund the government failed after Democrats called for funding bills to include an extension of existing healthcare subsidies. Republicans refused to support these measures, leading to the shutdown.
Senate Republicans have now agreed to hold a vote on extending these subsidies by mid-December under the latest funding deal.
However, Johnson has not committed to doing so in the House. “We’re going to do in the House what we always do and that is a deliberative process,” he said.
The funding deal additionally includes a reversal of the Trump administration’s layoffs of federal employees during the shutdown.
Johnson will also swear in Arizona Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva before the House votes on the shutdown deal this week, his office said. Grijalva, a Democrat, was elected in September, and this is the longest ever delay for any representative’s swearing-in.
Although Johnson previously said he would not swear in Grijalva until the House returned from its recess, Republican representatives have been sworn in while the House was not in session earlier this year.
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