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• House passes GOP funding bill to avoid government shutdown - March 11, 2025

• By Sean Michael Newhouse, Government Executive

  The House on Tuesday passed, 217-213, in a narrow, mostly party-line vote legislation to largely maintain current funding levels for the rest of the fiscal year in order to avert a government shutdown.
  
  "In a shameful display of coordinated political theater, Democrats are willing to run out the clock on funding the government in a failed attempt to block the America First agenda," Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., posted on X following the vote. "Now it’s decision time for Senate Democrats: cast a vote to keep the government open or be responsible for shutting it down."
  
  Senate Democrats are needed to attain the 60 votes for passage. They have been generally mum on if they’d support it. Some have said they want to use the shutdown fight to push back against cuts across government spearheaded by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.

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