The House passed a bill to fund the government for three months on Wednesday, avoiding a shutdown at the end of the month. It sent the package to be considered by the Senate.

The House passed the bill, which funds the government until December 20 at the current level of funding, with a vote of 341 to 82. This included support from 209 Democrats as well as 132 Republicans. The 82 “no’ votes were all from Republicans.

The Senate will likely pass the stopgap on Wednesday night and then send it to Biden for his signature before the deadline of September 30.

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The House’s month-long funding battle was capped off by the passage of the package just before the lawmakers left Washington for the elections in November. The failed attempt of Speaker Mike Johnson (R.La.) was included. It included a failed attempt by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)

The bill was passed by suspending the rules and requiring two thirds of support. Johnson was forced to abandon his plans to introduce it through the regular procedural procedure due to opposition by some on the right who threatened to block it.

However, the battle for government funding is not over. The three-month stopgap will set the stage for a second shutdown in December during the lame duck period. This time, lawmakers will need to put together a budget to keep Washington’s lights on past the new deadline.

Johnson has pledged that the House won’t approve an omnibus bill that would prevent a shutdown in December. This is good news for conservatives who are opposed to the entire-government measures. But will be a difficult goal to achieve as he grapples with a razor-thin GOP majority, a Democratic-controlled Senate and White House, and pressure to fund the government and leave town ahead of the Christmas holiday.

The dynamics of December will be heavily influenced by the results in November for House, Senate and White House.

The Speaker did, however, reiterate his commitment after the vote on Wednesday.

He said: “I’ve assured everyone this week, and I have said it multiple times, that we will not return to a Christmas spending tradition. That’s an agreement I made with everyone.”

Johnson said: “I have made it very clear that we will not return to the tradition of the omnibus.”

He added, “We’ll have to wait and see what happens next December.”

Some Republicans are skeptical about this promise. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who voted against Wednesday’s stopgap, said, “I’m skeptical. History shows that December spending battles are not usually successful for the American public.”

“We’ll have to wait and see what happens in December,” he said. “I hope that the Speaker really means what he said, and I believe him, but we have to go see what happens.”

Johnson’s handling of the funding battle in December will have a major impact on not only the potential shutdown but also the fate of his leadership position within the House GOP. Johnson has said that he would like to be Speaker if Republicans maintain control of the lower house, but hardline conservatives say they won’t support him. This dynamic will increase attention on Johnson’s actions regarding government funding in later this year.

Johnson’s path to funding the federal government on Wednesday was marked by the pressure from hardline conservatives, including members of the House Freedom Caucus. They pushed for an extended continuing resolution which included a bill that required proof of citizenship in order to vote in U.S. election. This act is called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE). Trump also pushed for the inclusion the SAVE Act. He urged GOP lawmakers to allow the government to shut down if it was not included.

In his first salvo in the funding battle, the Speaker responded to these requests by presenting a six-month interim solution that included the SAVE Act. This package failed, however, on the House Floor after 14 Republicans voted against the legislation. Hardliners opposed the use of continuing resolutions, and defense hawks were worried about the impact of the six-month deadline on the Pentagon.

Johnson then met with leaders of both the House and Senate, bipartisans, to create a three-month interim solution, resulting in the SAVE Act being dropped — much to hardline House Republicans’ dismay, as many of them voted against it on Wednesday.

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Sources told The Hill that as the lower chamber prepared for the vote on Wednesday, Trump made calls to some House Republicans to encourage them to support a different spending package, namely a three-month continuing Resolution with voting provisions.

Sources said that Trump had called many of the Republicans who were opposed to the SAVE Act’s stopgap last week and they endorsed his plan. Johnson, however, pushed ahead with the three-month funding plan, despite Trump’s wishes that voting provisions should be included in legislation.