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All five members of the San Diego County congressional delegation voted Saturday keep the federal government open, as Democrats in the House offset a revolt by right-wing Republicans.

The GOP Congressman from Minnesota's 1st District voted in favor of a stopgap spending measure that keeps the government open through mid-November.

Arizona's delegation split on the vote, with moderate Republicans voting yes while more hard-line members joined with Democrats to vote it down.

A wide array of congressional Democrats are lashing out at the GOP’s efforts to score border policy concessions in the ongoing budget fight, warning the proposal would worsen conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border. In a joint statement Thursday, the Black, Hispanic, Asian Pacific American and Progressive caucuses warned against the Republican push to make border…

The House of Representatives voted to pass a 45-day short-term spending bill Saturday, potentially staving of a government shutdown.

House Republicans on early Friday rolled out their new plan for a short-term spending bill that would stave off a government shutdown. The plan, dubbed the Spending Reduction and Border Security Act, would extend funding through the end of October, but impose across the board cuts of about 30 percent – with exemptions for national defense, the…

House Republicans finally unveiled their long-awaited stopgap measure that includes a wishlist of arch-conservative priorities and is all but guaranteed to be rejected by the Senate.

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made border security a central feature of his stopgap funding bill to keep the government open and is daring conservative holdouts to vote against it.

The House of Representatives has defeated a continuing resolution negotiated between House Republicans in an effort to avoid a government shutdown.