House Passes One-week Funding Extension
The move to fund government agencies through December 18 would avoid a shutdown and provide time for further coronavirus aide negotiations.

The U.S. House on Wednesday passed 343-67 a measure to extend government-wide funding—including for the Department of Transportation and the FAA—by one week until December 18 as talks continue on full-year Fiscal 2021 bills, as well as a coronavirus relief package. The government is currently funded through December 11 under a stopgap measure adopted in September. Facing that deadline, the Senate is expected to consider the one-week extension before the end of the week, averting a shutdown.


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