Rifts are emerging between Republicans over how to approach next month's government funding fight, with some pushing for leaders to try to pass new full-year spending plans and others already expressing openness to another funding patch if it means less spending.

When lawmakers return from their monthlong recess in September, they’ll have just weeks before an end-of-month deadline to keep the government funded or risk a shutdown.

Lawmakers acknowledge they’ll likely need a stopgap funding bill, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), to keep the government open come October and buy time for Congress to strike an overall fiscal 2026 spending deal.

But some conservatives have already expressed backing for a full-year CR that would mostly lock in for another year funding levels set in March 2024.

“Number one, here’s my order, pass the budget,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said last week. “Number two, no government shutdown.”

“Number three is, if we're gonna have a CR, let’s do a full year,” he told The Hill, adding, “If we can’t get it done by now, we’re not gonna get done anytime soon.”

It’s become typical for Congress to pass short-term funding patches in September that temporarily keep spending at current levels into November or December as they work out a larger bipartisan deal to fund the government. That deal, which has often led to a massive spending bill known as an omnibus negotiated by House and Senate leaders, enrages conservatives who complain most lawmakers are left out of the process.

Scott pushed back against that path, which he argued could lead to a “busted up, blown-out spending bill.”

His comments come after House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.), who is also a GOP spending cardinal, floated another “yearlong CR” as an option when pressed about the fiscal 2026 process, arguing Democrats are “not going to negotiate in good faith” when it comes time to hash out a bipartisan spending deal.

“I have no problem with yearlong CR, it keeps spending at current levels, it doesn't increase spending,” he said before the House recessed in late July.

“Just get it all over with. Just do a full-year CR, and I personally think........

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