The House has overwhelmingly approved a short-term continuing resolution that funds the federal government through Dec. 11 and sends the measure to President Trump, pushing a broader spending fight past the Nov. 3 midterm elections. The Sept. 1 vote was 370-48, with 19 Republicans and 29 Democrats opposed and 14 members not voting, after GOP leaders fast-tracked the bill for two-thirds support when the chamber returned from its summer break, following the Senate’s 90-6 advance on Aug. 8. The stopgap was needed because Congress has not finished any of the 12 full-year spending bills for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, and lawmakers moved to avert another shutdown after earlier lapses that included a record 43-day closure last fall over Affordable Care Act marketplace tax credits and a 76-day Department of Homeland Security funding fight, within three partial shutdowns totaling an unprecedented 161 days. The House had first passed a GOP-led extension to Dec. 4 in July with little Democratic support; the Senate’s bipartisan rewrite to Dec. 11 added a short-term delay of a ban on intoxicating hemp products, language temporarily preventing political appointees from canceling federal grants—backed by Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins and Sen. Patty Murray—and a provision closing a loophole Democrats said allowed transfers of funds to the Border Patrol. House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole said the bill gives certainty the government will remain open and service members will be paid, while Speaker Mike Johnson cast the vote as avoiding another shutdown and doing the grown-up thing. Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro urged Democrats to back the improved Senate version, called the grants-rule delay an important first step, and said disaster relief should not depend on how communities voted. The measure does not resolve major fiscal pressures after the national debt crossed $40 trillion last month. December talks on full-year bills will be difficult: Republicans are seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in additional military spending while cutting most non-defense programs, which Democrats call a non-starter as they insist on bipartisan parity for domestic programs, with leverage shaped by which party holds Congress after the midterms.