戏剧性的是，众议院共和党人通过了一项法案，为政府提供资金，直到2025年9月底——这是议长迈克·约翰逊的一次重大胜利，他此前一直依赖民主党人的两党支持来避免政府关门。
众议院以217票对213票通过了支出法案，这被称为一项持续决议，几天后一些资金将告罄。
众议院投票后-只有一名共和党人倒戈-约翰逊感谢唐纳德·特朗普总统，他帮助说服共和党坚持支持该法案。
“我们在实现美国第一议程的使命上团结一致，”约翰逊说在X上的一篇帖子中.
支出法案现在已经提交到参议院，需要60票才能通过，其命运还不确定。
众议院的批准让参议院民主党人在未来的“严峻”决定上产生了分歧。
参议院民主党人会怎么做?
“实际上只有两个选择:一个是投票给一个相当糟糕的公司。或者是投票支持可能更糟糕的关闭，”缅因州参议员安格斯·金(Angus King)在众议院投票后表示。“所以这是一个非常艰难的选择，”
民主党人周二举行了两个小时的会议，但没有就如何处理该法案的投票达成共识，分歧显而易见。
一些民主党人显然倾向于投出痛苦的一票，反对众议院的一揽子计划，并实际上关闭政府。
马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦。称众议院通过的CR是一项“关闭法案”，共和党人将在周二晚上的发言中承担责任。
“预算是我们价值观的反映，”沃伦在会上说。“这项提议非常清楚地表明了共和党人的价值观。经过几个月的两党会谈，他们离开了谈判桌，提出了一个不启动的众议院法案，迫使我们濒临政府全面关闭。共和党关闭剧本是危险的，它将伤害工人家庭。"
虽然她没有明确说明她计划如何对该方案进行投票，但她表示，众议院民主党人反对该措施是正确的，并表示参议院应该效仿。
当被问及参议院民主党人是否应该团结一致反对众议院的一揽子计划时，沃伦说:“众议院的民主党人已经向我们表明他们是团结的。”“为什么在元老院就不一样了?”
另外，众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯(Hakeem Jeffries)周二表示，参议院民主党人应该反对这项措施。
杰弗里斯说:“众议院民主党投票反对这一鲁莽的共和党支出法案，这本身就说明了问题。”
参议院民主党:投票“像一场噩梦”
金指出参议院民主党人面临的“严峻”选择，他表示，他担心特朗普新政府关闭的“未知”领域已经解雇了联邦雇员。
“当你有一个至少在某些方面可能会欢迎关闭的政府时，关闭是一个未知的领域，因为这将给予总统几乎无限的权力:决定谁是必要的谁不是不必要的，解散机构，”金说。"这就是正在讨论的两难问题."
众议院通过他们的议案后，已经离开了这个星期。如果参议院的民主党人希望避免周五晚上关门，他们必须提供至少八票才能做到，共和党参议员兰德·保罗已经表示他将反对该方案。
目前还不清楚他们最终会选择什么路线，但一些成员显然受到了选择的困扰。
“他们做了很多改变，我想看看他们在改变什么，”科罗拉多州参议员约翰·希肯卢珀说。
“我不开心……这是我们经历过的事情之一，感觉就像一场噩梦。我必须经历它。”
众议院投票:1名共和党人反对，1名民主党人赞成
在众议院的投票中，肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·马西(Thomas Massie)投了反对票——尽管总统以初选威胁的形式施加了压力。特朗普周一在一篇名为“真相”的社交帖子中表示，叛逃事件证明了针对马西的初选活动是正当的。
为了在周二下午通过这项措施，约翰逊依赖于一些共和党人的支持，这些共和党人从未投票赞成持续的决议。
众议员杰瑞德·戈尔登是唯一一个支持共和党的民主党人。所有其他民主党人都投票反对这项措施，这可能预示着参议院民主党人的立场。
“这个CR并不完美，但关闭会更糟。即使是短暂的关闭也会带来更多的混乱和不确定性，而这个时候我们的国家负担不起。
他还抨击民主党人对该法案使用他所谓的“信息噱头”。
该法案以目前的水平为政府提供资金，直至2025年9月30日。
账单里有什么?
这份99页的法案从去年的拨款水平上减少了总体开支，但是增加了大约60亿美元的军费开支。
虽然退伍军人医疗保健额外增加了60亿美元，但非国防支出比2024财年的水平低约130亿美元。
该法案没有为灾难提供紧急资金，但为移民和海关执法驱逐行动提供了资金支持。
它还为W.I.C .增加了约5亿美元的资金，这是一个为低收入妇女和儿童提供免费食品的项目。
现在众议院已经将其法案提交给参议院，尚不清楚该法案将如何进行，因为它需要两党的大力支持才能在参议院获得通过。
投票是对约翰逊领导能力的重大考验
支出法案是对约翰逊的一个重大考验。在缺乏民主党支持的情况下，约翰逊只能承受失去一票共和党人的支持，然后第二票就会否决该法案。
在投票后的一份声明中，约翰逊表示，共和党人“代表美国人民”，并抨击民主党人，他说民主党人“决定在党派政治上加倍下注”。
川普和副总统万斯是约翰逊的重要盟友，他们在投票前游说众议院共和党人以获得支持。
在周二投票前的最后几个小时，川普一直在打电话，联系仍未做出决定的众议院共和党人。
议员们对美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)说，周二早上，万斯参加了一个闭门的众议院会议，他敦促众议院共和党人参与投票，并强调了不关闭政府的重要性。
政府资助将于3月14日周五结束时失效。
After House votes to avert government shutdown, Senate Democrats face 'stark' choice
In dramatic fashion, House Republicans passed a bill to fund the government through the end of September 2025 -- a major victory for Speaker Mike Johnson, who has previously relied on Democrats for bipartisan support to avert a shutdown.
The House voted 217-213 to pass the spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, days before some funding runs out.
Following the House vote -- which saw just a single Republican defection -- Johnson thanked President Donald Trump, who helped convince GOP holdouts to support the bill.
"We are united in our mission to deliver the America first agenda," Johnson saidin a post on X.
The spending bill now heads to the Senate -- where it requires 60 votes to pass, and its fate is uncertain.
The House's approval has left Senate Democrats divided on the "stark" decision ahead.
What will Senate Democrats do?
"There are really only two options: One is vote for a pretty bad CR. Or the other is to vote for a potentially even worse shutdown," said Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, following the House vote. "So it's a very tough choice,"
Democrats met for two hours Tuesday with no consensus on how they planned to handle the vote on the bill -- and the fissure is palpable.
Some Democrats are clearly leaning toward casting a painful vote to oppose the House package and effectively shut down the government.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., branded the House-passed CR a "shutdown bill" that Republicans will bear responsibility for in a floor speech Tuesday night.
"A budget is a reflection of our values," Warren said on the floor. "This proposal makes crystal clear where Republicans' values lie. After months of bipartisan talks, they're walking away from the negotiating table and offering a non-starter House bill that forces us to the brink of a full government shutdown. The Republican shutdown playbook is dangerous, and it will hurt working families."
Though she did not expressly state how she plans to vote on the package, she said House Democrats were right to oppose the measure, and said the Senate should follow suit.
"Democrats in the House have showed us they are united," Warren said, when asked if Senate Democrats should be united in their opposition to the House package. "Why should it be different in the Senate?"
Separately, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggested Tuesday that Senate Democrats should oppose the measure.
"The strong House Democratic vote in opposition to this reckless Republican spending bill speaks for itself," Jeffries said.
Senate Dem: Vote 'like a bad dream'
Pointing to the "stark" choice Senate Democrats face, King said he has concerns that the "uncharted" territory of a shutdown under the new Trump administration that has already laid off federal employees.
"A shutdown is uncharted territory when you've got an administration that at least in some ways probably would welcome a shutdown because that would give the president almost unlimited power: deciding who is essential who is not unessential, folding up agencies," King said. "So that is the dilemma that is being discussed."
The House has left town for the week after passing their bill. If Democrats in the Senate want to avoid a shut down on Friday night, they'll have to furnish at least eight votes to do it, with Republican Sen. Rand Paul already stating he'll oppose the package.
It's unclear what route they'll ultimately choose but some members are clearly plagued by the choice.
"They made a bunch of changes, I want to see what they're changing," Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo. said.
"I'm not happy … It's one of those things once we go through it, it's going to feel like a bad dream. I've got to go through it."
House vote: 1 Republican 'No,' 1 Democratic 'Yes'
In the House vote, Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie voted no -- despite pressure from the president in the form of a primary threat. In a Truth Social post Monday, Trump suggested that the defection warranted mounting a primary campaign against Massie.
To pass the measure Tuesday afternoon, Johnson relied on some GOP support from Republicans who had never voted in favor of a continuing resolution.
Rep. Jared Golden was the only Democrat who voted with Republicans. All other Democrats voted against the measure -- potentially previewing the posture of Senate Democrats.
"This CR is not perfect, but a shutdown would be worse. Even a brief shutdown would introduce even more chaos and uncertainty at a time when our country can ill-afford it," Golden posted on X.
He also slammed Democrats for using what he called "messaging gimmicks" about the bill.
The bill funds the government at current levels through Sept. 30, 2025.
What's in the bill?
The 99-page bill decreases spending overall from last year's funding levels, but increases spending for the military by about $6 billion.
While there is an additional $6 billion for veterans' health care, non-defense spending is about $13 billion lower than fiscal year 2024 levels.
The legislation leaves out emergency funding for disasters, but provides a boost in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation operations.
It also increases funding for W.I.C. by about $500 million, a program that provides free groceries to low-income women and children.
Now that the House has dispatched its bill to the Senate, it's not yet clear how it will fare as it will require significant bipartisan support to pass the upper chamber.
Vote was major test of Johnson's leadership
The spending bill was a major test for Johnson. In the absence of Democratic support, Johnson could only afford to lose one Republican vote before a second defection killed the bill.
In a statement following the vote, Johnson said Republicans "stood for the American people" and blasted Democrats who he said "decided to double down on partisan politics."
Johnson had crucial allies in Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who lobbied House Republicans to shore up support ahead of the vote.
In the final hours before the Tuesday vote, Trump worked the phones, reaching out to the House Republicans who remained undecided.
On Tuesday morning, Vance attended a closed-door House conference meeting where he urged House Republicans to get on board with the vote and emphasized the importance of not shutting the government down, members said to ABC News.
Government funding is set to lapse at the end of the day on Friday, March 14.
