The first partisan showdown over an end-of-month government funding deadline is set to take place on the House floor on Friday, with a vote on a stopgap to fund the government through Nov. 21.

Republican leaders who crafted the partisan bill aim to set up a repeat of their funding strategy from March: Cut Democrats out of the talks, dare Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to force a government shutdown — and hope he will fold as he did before.

House GOP leaders have told their members that they may not return until after Oct. 1 in a bid to jam the Senate Democrats into accepting their package, according to a House GOP leadership source, canceling previously scheduled votes on Sept. 29 and 30. The House is set to be out next week for the Rosh Hashanah holiday.

But to achieve that, Republicans will first have to muscle the stopgap through the House with their razor-thin majority — overcoming internal pushback from a handful of spending hawks.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that he’s confident the package will sail through the lower chamber without a glitch. “We’re going to get this government funded,” he said.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), tasked with wrangling the razor-thin House GOP majority, expressed similar confidence: “We’re going to pass it. Our members understand.”

In the days leading into the vote, at least four Republican lawmakers were threatening to withhold their support.

Democrats, meanwhile, are virtually united in opposing the short-term spending........

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