As lawmakers raced to get home before a snow storm, they quickly passed a stopgap measure to avert a government shutdown.
The Senate passed the measure easily, 77 to 18 .
But House Republicans wanted to send the measure back to the Rules Committee and amend it with a border security measure that they passed seven months ago.
Speaker Mike Johnson resisted…
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