{"id":660850,"date":"2026-08-31T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660850"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:41:34","slug":"house-lawmakers-return-to-washington-with-a-stopgap-funding-bill-atop-the-list-of-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660850","title":{"rendered":"House lawmakers return to Washington with a stopgap funding bill atop the list of priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday with a short to-do list after five weeks back in their home districts. The first order of business is most likely a vote on a stopgap spending bill designed to keep the federal government fully funded through early December, removing the possibility of a shutdown before the midterm elections.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/08\/31\/Congress_Ukraine_91849_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"House lawmakers return to Washington with a stopgap funding bill atop the list of priorities\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday with a short to-do list after five weeks back in their home districts. The first order of business is most likely a vote on a stopgap spending bill designed to keep the federal government fully funded through early December, removing the possibility of a shutdown before the midterm&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660850\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House lawmakers return to Washington with a stopgap funding bill atop the list of priorities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}