
The House’s stopgap funding proposal to avert a government shutdown, which includes an $8 billion defense add, faces a tight path to pass the lower chamber this week but is already meeting resistance from several senior Senate Democrats over its cuts to non-defense spending. While the continuing resolution (CR) is likely to receive near-unanimous opposition from House Democrats, the bill to keep the government open through September 30 would require the support of several Senate Democrats to pass in the…