{"id":428251,"date":"2026-08-09T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428251\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:10:20","slug":"california-senators-support-funding-patch-measure-hope-to-prevent-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428251\/","title":{"rendered":"California senators support funding patch measure, hope to prevent shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"From<\/a>From left, U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff address the media before visiting an immigration detention center in California City on Jan. 20, 2026. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez\/AP)<\/p>\n

Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff voted in favor of a stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown come Oct. 1.<\/p>\n

The continuing resolution became a top priority in Congress because it would keep federal agencies funded through Dec. 11 at current levels, with some exceptions, as the midterm election approaches. In the days before the Senate\u2019s August recess, they worked through a variety of nominations<\/a> and last-minute bills like the CR.<\/p>\n

Padilla said while heading to the cloture vote for the stopgap funding bill, they are \u201cstill working feverishly,\u201d but avoiding a government shutdown \u201calone is not insignificant.\u201d<\/p>\n

A cloture vote limits debate and advances legislation toward a final vote.<\/p>\n

Later on Friday, the Senate voted 91-6 to move the CR to the House. The Senate had a long night \u2014 bringing cots in on Friday for some staffers \u2014 but, officially passed the bill at 90-6.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The House passed its own version<\/a> to extend government funding through Dec. 4 before their recess on July 21. The House\u2019s version of the bill passed with a mostly party-line vote of 220-205.<\/p>\n

Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, blamed Senate Democrats for past government shutdowns during his July 21 floor remarks on the House CR.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSenate Democrats won\u2019t even allow markups to progress. It\u2019s impossible to negotiate full-year funding when circumstances make clear that one side is willing to bring the process to a standstill before it can even leave committee,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The House is expected to push back<\/a> against the Senate\u2019s version of the patch measure when they return to Washington. When members return in September they will have just 16 days to resolve their differences to pass a continuing resolution.<\/p>\n

The Senate\u2019s version of the stopgap includes a temporary halt on a proposed Office of Management and Budget grant rule that would give the Trump administration more control over federal grants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democrats have warned that the Trump administration and the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s control over federal grants could be used to steer federal funding toward favored projects while withholding it from others for political reasons \u2014 like biomedical research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much scientific research done in San Diego,\u201d Schiff said to Times of San Diego. \u201cThe CR prevents \u2026 politicized science grants.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schiff said the bill would stop the funding from shifting from a \u201cmerit-based system to a crony-based system.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senate Republican John Kennedy of Louisiana warned this only delays an inevitable win for the White House to control grant-funded projects, according to FOX News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both chambers of Congress hope to avoid another historically long government shutdown \u2014 like the one last year that ended after 43 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Andrea Caldwell, the director of government affairs and advocacy for the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank<\/a>, said during the previous government shutdown the food bank saw an influx of\u00a0 people needing support \u2014 from those who lost CalFresh benefits<\/a> to those furloughed or working without pay.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe uncertainty is really the hard piece that people grapple with,\u201d Caldwell said. \u201cDuring the shutdown, there was added uncertainty of \u2018Would SNAP benefits be paid?\u2019 \u2018Would they not be paid?\u2019 \u2018What did that look like?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

If a CR passes and is signed by the president, it will push off further budget fights until Dec. 11, when the stopgap expires.<\/p>\n

\u201cA continuing resolution is a great compromise,\u201d she said. \u201cWe always want the full budget, but a continuing resolution does continue the fund aspects and keeps things moving \u2026 Anything that keeps things moving, we\u2019re appreciative of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From left, U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff address the media before visiting an immigration detention center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9984,6361,7,9,8,638],"class_list":["post-428251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-adam-schiff","tag-alex-padilla","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-government-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}