House Passes Stopgap 2022 Budget; Senate GOP Threatens Fillibuster

摘要

The full House this week passed a stopgap spending bill that would essentially freeze federal spending, including at theDepartment of Energy, at 2021 levels until Dec. 3.It was a party-line vote in the Democratic-majority chamber: 220-211, with one member not voting.The stopgap budget now heads to the Senate, where Republican leaders have said the GOP will filibuster the bill over aprovision that could raise the national debt limit - a limit that Congress has always voted to raise, but which remainspolitically contentious. The House-passed continuing resolution attempts to postpone a decision on raising the debt limituntil December 16, with a debt-ceiling increase kicking in automatically on Dec. 17.