House Republicans are pressing on with plans for a clean six-month stopgap to keep the government funded beyond next week’s shutdown deadline in the face of staunch resistance from Democrats.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters on Wednesday that Republicans are “running the full-year CR, period,” next week, referring to the party’s plan to pass a stopgap, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), through late September.

“We’re not going to live through CRs every two weeks and all that kind of stuff,” he said. “So, the Speaker is very insistent that we go all the way to September. I agree with that decision.”

Negotiators on both sides had previously been hopeful of striking a bipartisan deal on overall government spending for fiscal 2025, which began in October. But both parties have struggled to reach an overall funding agreement amid a fierce debate over the president’s authority to withhold dollars already allocated by Congress and lay off thousands of federal workers as part of a sweeping operation to reshape the government.

Cole said on Wednesday that a bipartisan deal is still “better than a CR,” leaving the door open to both sides continuing efforts to craft a bipartisan government funding deal for the remainder of the current fiscal year.

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