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The House of Representatives passed a bill to prevent a government shutdown before the holiday season with broad bipartisan support.

Despite staunch conservative opposition, the House passed Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) two-step continuing resolution to keep the government funded just days before the shutdown deadline, sending it to the Senate, which is expected to pass the bill.

The spending bill continues funding government at current levels with no border security, spending cuts, or money for Israel or Ukraine.

‘The bill will stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of massive, loaded up spending bills,’ Speaker Mike Johnson says of two-step funding plan ahead of 17 November deadline

The novel approach to avert a funding lapse now heads to the Senate.

The House Freedom Caucus blasts stopgap measure because it doesn't include any offsetting reductions in spending.

Measure next goes to the Senate for floor vote.

The vote Tuesday comes just six weeks after Congress voted in September to avoid a government shutdown.

The U.S. House cleared a big hurdle on Tuesday to avoid a government shutdown for now.The chamber passed a continuing resolution extending funding for some gove

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is getting a free pass from hard-line Republicans who are upset with his approach on keeping the government open with a “clean” funding extension, but are holding him to a different standard than former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — for now. “Everybody gets a mulligan,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who…