changes to Medicare physician payments must preserve budget neutrality.

House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the measure less than a week before funding from a short-term bill passed in September was set to expire.Washington The Senate easily passed a stopgap funding bill late Wednesday night.

But dissent from within his own party over its lack of spending cuts or funding for border security required Johnson to rely on Democratic votes to get it over the finish line.known as a continuing resolution.None have been passed by both chambers.

Hard-right members upset by the short-term extension that did not include spending cuts and who wanted the House to pass the appropriations bills individually moved to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as their leader.Whats in the continuing resolution?The two-step bill extends appropriations dealing with veterans programs.

sending it to the Senate ahead of a Friday deadline.

the government was set to shutdown Saturday.Congress reached a last-minute deal to fund the government through Nov.

Why is the government facing another shutdown?Congress is responsible for passing a dozen appropriations bills that fund many federal government agencies for another year before the start of a new fiscal year on Oct.Whats in the continuing resolution?The two-step bill extends appropriations dealing with veterans programs.

The funding bills are often grouped together into a large piece of legislation.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries originally called the two-step plan a nonstarter.