House GOP leaders are aiming to pass a stopgap spending bill this week that funds the government through Nov. 20, GOP sources told The Hill, as lawmakers face an end-of-the-month shutdown deadline.

Text of the continuing resolution (CR) has yet to be released, though Republicans have said it will largely be "clean."

House leaders face a tight time crunch to pass the plan by the week’s end, with lawmakers scheduled to leave Washington next week for the Rosh Hashanah holiday.

The strategy, however, sets up a showdown with Democrats who have called for any stopgap to include major concessions on health care as a condition of their votes.

"Partisan legislation that continues the unprecedented Republican assault on healthcare is not a clean spending bill. It’s a dirty one," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wrote on X on Monday.

That is raising the likelihood of Republicans having to pass the CR in the House without relying on Democratic votes, before daring Senate Minority Leader Chuck........

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