The House plans to take up another short-term funding measure this week to keep the federal government funded through next Friday, December 18. The current funding mechanism is scheduled to expire at midnight Saturday.
The extension through next Friday is being sought to buy extra time for negotiators to come to an agreement on, among other things, the FY2021 spending package and another COVID relief bill. Congressional leaders have discussed the possibility of combining the two into a single measure and neither has been finalized.