With the political conventions in the rearview mirror, Congress returns this week facing the traditional election-year push and pull of members wanting to get out of Washington as quickly as possible while doing just enough to avoid a government shutdown.
House conservatives have been agitating about attaching a noncitizen voting bill to the September stopgap spending bill and for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to pitch a plan to punt the spending debate into 2025.
The stopgap bill released Friday night by House Republicans would combine a six-month continuing resolution with a House-passed bill that supporters say would help to ensure that noncitizens can’t vote in federal elections — something Democrats note is already against the law. If it becomes law, the continuing resolution would set a March 28 deadline to avert a partial government shutdown.
