The House passed a bill Tuesday evening that would keep the government funded through Dec. 4, but the Senate is preparing an alternative stopgap measure. The vote was 220-205, with all but six House Democrats voting in opposition.

Senate Alternative

The Senate is separately trying to negotiate a bipartisan agreement on a stopgap funding extension that will incorporate so-called “anomalies,” changes from the current budget the administration says are needed for an array of priorities.

House Democrats argued the measure “fails to block funding for Donald Trump’s violent mass deportation machine” and gives his administration more power over the federal budget. Current government funding does not expire until Sept. 30, but Republican leaders wanted to bring an extension to the floor early to show Democrats are prepared to pick another shutdown fight.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democratic appropriator, said her party assumed it was a drafting mistake but when they suggested language to fix it, Republicans refused to change the bill. “In recent weeks, immigration agents have shot and killed residents in Maine and in Texas, neither of whom were targets of enforcement operations,” she said.

The stopgap bill will extend current funding levels and policies past the midterms, nine weeks into the next fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. It was put together without Democrats’ input.

Original reporting: WMAL (Washington DC) — read the source article.