U.S. Congress · September 1, 2026
H.R. 6500 keeps most federal agencies at fiscal year 2026 rates through December 11, 2026. The Senate had passed the same text 90 to 6 on August 8. The president signed it September 2 as Public Law 119-103.
Story updated 2026-09-08.
This story rests on the enrolled text of H.R. 6500, the House Clerk's roll calls, the Senate roll calls, Public Law 119-37, Public Law 119-86, the National Archives public-law list, the White House signing note, the Office of Management and Budget's August 3 policy statement, the Congressional Record, floor and press statements from the Speaker and the appropriations chairs, and coverage checked against those records. It also rests on the Senate Appropriations Committee's section-by-section summary and the chair's August 2 statement, the House floor summary for September 1, and two House members' statements on their no votes. The Congressional Budget Office published an estimate of the Senate text on August 5; cbo.gov refused every route we have (the registry's fetcher, a browser-identified fetch, and the Internet Archive) on September 8, so no CBO figure appears on this page. Axios and Politico copies were saved September 8 with a browser-imitating fetch.
The vote, the text, and the clock
On September 1, 2026, at 2:03 p.m., the House voted 370 to 48 on a motion to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendments to H.R. 6500. Suspend the rules is the fast-track path: it allows no amendments and needs two-thirds. Republicans voted 193 to 19, Democrats 176 to 29, and Independent Kiley of California yes; 14 members did not vote. The Clerk's description field on that roll call still reads "AGOA Extension Act," the name the bill carried in January. The enrolled act's short title is the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027.21
A continuing resolution is a stopgap: it keeps agencies running at last year's rate while Congress has not finished the twelve full-year spending bills. Fiscal year 2027 begins October 1. If no new act were signed by September 30, the 2026 appropriations named in section 101 would have lapsed.17
The act sets its end date program by program. Section 106 says money for a project or activity lasts until the earliest of three things: an appropriation for it becomes law, the full-year 2027 act that covers it becomes law without funding it, or December 11, 2026. Signing one of the twelve full-year bills ends the stopgap only for the programs in that bill. The Senate committee's own summary puts it the same way: the applicable act "either does or does not include funds for a particular program." Section 101 sets the rate as the 2026 appropriations acts named there, with listed exceptions.148
The Senate had passed the same text 90 to 6 at 3:37 a.m. on August 8, under the title "An act making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes." The nays were Cassidy, Kaine, Markey, Paul, Sanders, and Warren; Graham voted present; Lankford, McConnell, and Tillis did not vote. Those votes sit in the August 7 Congressional Record, the Senate's legislative day, which is why the session ran past 3 a.m. Earlier that sitting the Senate voted 91 to 6 to end debate on the Collins substitute amendment No. 6732, and an hour before passage, at 2:36 a.m., it tabled an amendment by Senator Ted Budd, 61 to 32, whose stated purpose was "To strike section 2019."43230533
Section 2019 is the hemp section, though it never says the word. Public Law 119-37, approved November 12, 2025, rewrites what counts as legal hemp "Effective 365 days after the enactment of this Act," which is November 12, 2026: a cap of 0.3 percent "total tetrahydrocannabinols" and exclusions for "intermediate hemp-derived cannabinoid products" and "final hemp-derived cannabinoid products" that contain "cannabinoids that are not capable of being naturally produced by a Cannabis sativa L. plant." Enrolled section 2019, headed "SECTION 781 EXTENSION," says that "Until December 11, 2026, the amendments made by section 781" of the 2025 law apply only to two of the product categories that law lists. Between November 12 and December 11 only the part aimed at lab-made cannabinoids applies; the rest waits 29 days.231
Outlets that called this a delay of the hemp ban were right, with one omission most of them made: the lab-made-cannabinoid part is not delayed.161
On the floor, House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole said the Senate-amended bill "gives the nation, and our constituents, certainty": the government stays open, service members are paid, TSA keeps operating, Social Security checks go out. After the vote Speaker Mike Johnson credited "House Republicans' leadership and the foresight back in July." Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro said the deadline had been pushed to December 11 and "We have 101 days until government funding expires."9811
The bill number is the same from January to September; the text inside it changed in August.2526
| Vote | Question | Result | Republicans | Democrats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House roll 14, Jan 12 | Pass H.R. 6500 as the AGOA Extension Act | 340 to 54 | R 149 to 43 | D 191 to 11 |
| House roll 272, Jul 21 | Pass H.R. 9770, the House stopgap | 220 to 205 | R 213 to 1 | D 6 to 204 |
| Senate vote 227, Aug 8 | Table the Budd amendment to strike the hemp section | 61 to 32 | R 26 to 21 | D 34 to 11 |
| Senate vote 228, Aug 8 | Pass H.R. 6500 as amended | 90 to 6 | 1 present | 3 absent |
| House roll 286, Sep 1 | Concur in the Senate amendments | 370 to 48 | R 193 to 19 | D 176 to 29 |
| House roll 288, Sep 1 | Adopt the rule for other bills, H. Res. 1499 | 210 to 208 | R 207 to 5 | D 2 to 203 |
Independent Kiley voted yes on rolls 286 and 288; one independent voted yea on Senate vote 227.25
Each party's appropriations leader put one sentence on the record. Cole, the House Appropriations chairman, opened with what the bill buys.9
certainty that the government will remain open9
Rosa DeLauro, the committee's top Democrat, counted the days it actually buys.11
We have 101 days until government funding expires.11
In the Senate, Patty Murray, vice chair of Appropriations, claimed the change Democrats wanted: a limit on moving money to Border Patrol.13
It closes the loophole that would have allowed the Trump administration to transfer funding for other programs to Border Patrol.13
On September 1, 2026, at 2:03 p.m., the House voted on a motion to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendments to H.R. 6500. Suspend the rules is the fast-track path: it allows no amendments and needs two-thirds.2
recordThe Clerk recorded the result as passed, 370 yeas to 48 nays.2
recordThe Clerk's description field on that roll call still reads "AGOA Extension Act."2
recordThe enrolled act's short title is the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027.1
recordSection 106 sets the end date program by program. Money for a project or activity lasts until the earliest of three things: an appropriation for that project or activity becomes law, the full-year 2027 act that covers it becomes law without funding it, or December 11, 2026. Signing one of the twelve full-year bills ends the stopgap only for the programs in that bill. The Senate committee's own summary puts it the same way: the applicable act "either does or does not include funds for a particular program." Section 101 sets the rate as the fiscal year 2026 appropriations acts named there, with listed exceptions.148
recordThe Senate passed H.R. 6500, as amended, 90 to 6.4
recordThat vote was recorded at 3:37 a.m. on August 8, 2026.32
recordThe Senate's own title on that vote is "An act making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes."4
recordThe nays were Cassidy, Kaine, Markey, Paul, Sanders, and Warren. Graham voted present. Lankford, McConnell, and Tillis did not vote.4
recordThose August 8 votes sit in the August 7 Congressional Record, the Senate's legislative day, which is why the session ran past 3 a.m. Earlier that sitting the Senate voted 91 to 6 to end debate on the Collins substitute amendment No. 6732.3032
recordPublic Law 119-37, approved November 12, 2025, rewrites what counts as legal hemp. Section 781 amends section 297A of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 "Effective 365 days after the enactment of this Act." That date is November 12, 2026. The new definition caps hemp at 0.3 percent "total tetrahydrocannabinols" and excludes "intermediate hemp-derived cannabinoid products" and "final hemp-derived cannabinoid products" that contain "cannabinoids that are not capable of being naturally produced by a Cannabis sativa L. plant."23
recordEnrolled section 2019, headed "SECTION 781 EXTENSION," does not use the word hemp, which is why a text search of the stopgap misses it. It says that "Until December 11, 2026, the amendments made by section 781" of the 2025 law apply only to two of the product categories that law lists. Between November 12 and December 11 only the part aimed at products made with cannabinoids a cannabis plant cannot produce on its own (lab-made cannabinoids) applies. The 0.3 percent total-THC line and the other exclusions wait until December 11. That wait is 29 days.1
recordAn hour before passage, at 2:36 a.m., the Senate tabled an amendment by Senator Ted Budd, 61 to 32. The Senate's title on that vote is "Motion to Table Budd Amdt. No. 6747." Its stated purpose is "To strike section 2019."533
recordRepublicans voted 26 yea and 21 nay. Democrats voted 34 yea and 11 nay. One independent voted yea.5
recordHouse Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, leading the floor debate, said the Senate-amended bill "gives the nation, and our constituents, certainty": that the government will remain open, that service members will be paid, that TSA will keep operating, and that Social Security checks will go out on time.9
recordThe House Appropriations committee's written statement the same day said the measure was approved by a vote of 370-48 and would go to the president's desk.10
recordAfter the vote, Speaker Mike Johnson said House Republicans had begun the work in July so the government would not shut down, and that troops, the Coast Guard, and TSA would not go unpaid. He credited "House Republicans' leadership and the foresight back in July."8
recordHouse Appropriations Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro issued a statement the same day: the deadline had been pushed to December 11, she remained committed to passing all twelve full-year bills before then, and "We have 101 days until government funding expires."11
recordHow the stopgap got here
101 days from the House vote to December 11 is DeLauro's count. The election falls 63 days after the vote and 38 days before the money ends.1131
H.R. 6500 began as a January trade bill. On January 12 the House passed it, as amended, 340 to 54 on a motion to suspend the rules, titled "AGOA Extension Act." AGOA is the African Growth and Opportunity Act, a trade-preference law for sub-Saharan African countries. The Senate used that bill number as the vehicle for the stopgap, changed the title, and sent the rewritten text back. The Clerk's record still prints the old name on roll call 286. The enrolled parchment carries the new one, and keeps a two-year AGOA extension inside it.2521
The July bill Cole and Johnson credited was a different bill. On July 21 the House passed H.R. 9770, "Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes," 220 to 205, with a December 4 date; Republicans 213 to 1, Democrats 6 to 204. The Senate never voted on it. Cole told the House that the Senate "built on our plan"; what the Senate did was write its own text into the January trade bill, and the House adopted that text without change.249
The White House was on record before the Senate voted. On August 3 the Office of Management and Budget issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting the Senate amendment, calling it a "clean, short-term continuing resolution" at current levels through December 11 and saying the president's senior advisors would recommend he sign it. Fox News the same day quoted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling the text the "responsible path forward that allows continued bipartisan negotiations on a budget that delivers for American families."739
Two provisions carry the politics. Section 157 bars, through December 11, the rewrite of the Uniform Guidance for federal grants that the budget office proposed on May 29 and wanted "effective by October 1, 2026." Murray's "loophole" sentence about Border Patrol is her wording; the record behind it is enrolled section 101(6), which continues the 2026 Homeland Security law except its division B, and that law's section 549, which says no amounts may be transferred to Customs and Border Protection, Operations and Support, for Border Security Operations.1281327
NPR places this vote after two long funding lapses: "a 43-day shutdown that ended in November" and "A 76-day shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security came to a close in April." Those counts are NPR's. The law that ended the fall 2025 shutdown, Public Law 119-37, was approved November 12, 2025.1923
The 370-48 margin hides two fights, one in each party. Among the 19 Republican no votes the record shows hemp and abortion funding. Andy Harris told Roll Call he would vote against a rule that came out without the continuing resolution and with a hemp amendment to undo what the Senate did. He told MS NOW: "The House and the Senate disagree on the continuing resolution. We should go to conference." Cole told Roll Call, "Hyde is the law of the land." CNBC reported that a Roy and Arrington letter objected to "funding for Planned Parenthood and the absence of a ban on hemp products that contain THC."363738
More Democrats than Republicans voted no, 29 to 19, and their reasons were different. Lateefah Simon of California said the resolution "would continue to fund President Trump and Congressional Republicans' deeply harmful and authoritarian agenda," naming "an illegal war in Iran," and said she could not "give a single cent to the Trump Administration." Delia Ramirez of Illinois said H.R. 6500 "includes funding for DHS operations, including units responsible for terrorizing our communities during Midway Blitz," the immigration enforcement operation in Chicago. Two statements do not explain 29 votes. They do show that hemp and abortion account for one party's objections, not the other's. Before the vote, Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar had told the Guardian that "Given that the objectives that we had were met," there would be "broad bipartisan support."4445342
I cannot vote to give a single cent to the Trump Administration44
Axios reported that "President Trump personally intervened Tuesday night in a dispute over delaying a ban on hemp-derived THC products, calling a key senator"; that the provision "would delay the ban by about a month"; and that a delay "would reportedly benefit White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles' son-in-law." Politico quoted Budd: "it is morally reprehensible to threaten a shutdown over a loophole Congress agreed to close to less than a year ago." Those sentences are the outlets'. No White House document this story cites mentions hemp. The August 3 policy statement and the September 2 signing note do not.40417
it is morally reprehensible to threaten a shutdown over a loophole Congress agreed to close to less than a year ago41
Cole told the House that in July it had passed H.R. 9770, a continuing resolution through December 4. The Senate, he said, built on that plan and passed an amended version before leaving for recess. The September 1 vote was to take up that Senate text.9
recordHouse roll call 272 on July 21, 2026, is the July bill: "Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes," on passage, 220 to 205. Republicans voted 213 to 1. Democrats voted 6 to 204. Independent 1 to 0.24
recordH.R. 6500 began as a January trade bill. On January 12 the House passed it, as amended, 340 to 54 on a motion to suspend the rules, titled "AGOA Extension Act." Republicans voted 149 to 43. Democrats voted 191 to 11. AGOA is the African Growth and Opportunity Act, a trade-preference law for sub-Saharan African countries. Cole, on the September 1 floor, called it a partnership with the nations of sub-Saharan Africa.2529
recordCole also told the House that "all 12 bills were reported out of" committee in the fastest time since fiscal year 2020.29
recordOn August 3, before the Senate vote, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Statement of Administration Policy supporting the Senate amendment. It called the bill a "clean, short-term continuing resolution" at current levels through December 11, and said the president's senior advisors would recommend he sign it.7
recordFox News, the same day, quoted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling the Senate text the "responsible path forward that allows continued bipartisan negotiations on a budget that delivers for American families."39
recordSection 157 bars, through December 11, a rule revising the Uniform Guidance for federal grants, the notice of proposed rulemaking titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance" published May 29, 2026, or a substantially similar rule.1
recordThat May 29 Federal Register notice said "Comments are due on or before" July 13, 2026, and that "OMB proposes to issue a final rule" that is "effective by October 1, 2026." The rule OMB wanted in force October 1 cannot be issued or take effect through December 11.281
recordSenate Appropriations Vice Chair Patty Murray, on August 8, said the negotiated stopgap "closes the loophole that would have allowed the Trump administration to transfer funding for other programs to Border Patrol." That sentence is Murray's wording. The record behind it is real: enrolled section 101(6) continues Public Law 119-86 except division B. Division A of that 2026 Homeland Security law is the "Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026." Its section 549 says no amounts may be transferred to Customs and Border Protection, Operations and Support, for Border Security Operations. The transfer bar continues with that division. Division B, the earlier stopgap attached to that law, is not carried forward.13271
recordMore Democrats than Republicans voted no, 29 to 19, and their reasons were different. Lateefah Simon of California said the resolution "would continue to fund President Trump and Congressional Republicans' deeply harmful and authoritarian agenda," naming "an illegal war in Iran," attacks on immigrant communities, and the electoral process, and said she could not "give a single cent to the Trump Administration." She thanked DeLauro for the provisions limiting immigration-enforcement funding in the same statement.44
recordDelia Ramirez of Illinois said H.R. 6500 "includes funding for DHS operations, including units responsible for terrorizing our communities during Midway Blitz," the immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, and called the department "the biggest threat to our collective safety." Two statements do not explain 29 votes. They do show that hemp and abortion account for one party's objections, not the other's.452
recordBefore the House vote, the Guardian quoted Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar: "Given that the objectives that we had were met," he said, there would be "broad bipartisan support."34
recordRoll Call wrote that "Tuesday's House vote marked the earliest completion in recent memory of a continuing resolution."36
recordHouse vote date from the Clerk: September 1, 2026. Senate vote date from the Senate XML: August 8, 2026. Signature date from the White House note: September 2, 2026. Expiry date from enrolled section 106(3): December 11, 2026. Election Day from the Federal Election Commission: November 3, 2026. Subtraction of those dates yields 24 elapsed days from the Senate vote to the House vote, 101 from the House vote to December 11, 63 from the House vote to November 3, and 38 from November 3 to December 11. DeLauro's 101 days matches the House-vote-to-expiry count. Hemp: 365 days after November 12, 2025 is November 12, 2026; November 12 to December 11 is 29 elapsed days.
From house-roll286.xml member rows. Republican nays (19): Biggs (AZ), Biggs (SC), Brecheen, Burlison, Cloud, Clyde, Crane, Davidson, Harris (MD), Higgins (LA), Massie, Norman, Perry, Rose, Roy, Schweikert, Self, Sessions, Steube. Democratic nays (29): Ansari, Boyle (PA), Carson, Casar, Castro (TX), Dexter, Espaillat, Frost, Garcia (CA), García (IL), Gomez, Jayapal, Khanna, Lee (PA), Magaziner, Matsui, McGarvey, McGovern, Min, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, Ramirez, Simon, Thanedar, Thompson (CA), Tlaib, Tonko, Underwood.
Workers, programs, and the next date
Cole's list of who keeps getting paid or served is the floor record: service members, TSA, Social Security recipients, homebuyers seeking mortgages, people on nutrition assistance, disaster relief, and road and infrastructure projects. The enrolled bill itself names the twelve 2026 appropriations acts it continues. Two named exceptions to a straight freeze touch people directly: WIC, the nutrition program for women, infants, and children, "may be apportioned at the rate for operations necessary to maintain participation," and civilian pay "may be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid furloughs." The budget office's August 3 statement said a shutdown "forces Federal employees to go without pay."917
| Section | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sec. 101 | Continues the twelve 2026 appropriations acts at their rates, with listed exceptions |
| Sec. 104 | No money to start or resume a project or activity not funded in 2026 |
| Secs. 109 and 110 | Programs that would front-load spending are held to the most limited funding action; no grants that would impinge on final funding decisions |
| Sec. 112 | Civilian pay may be apportioned at the rate needed to avoid furloughs |
| WIC | May be apportioned at the rate needed to maintain participation |
| Sec. 127 | Up to $2,853,000,000 of defense procurement money for National Security Systems |
| Sec. 146 | Army, Navy, and Marine Corps military construction not otherwise authorized by law |
| Sec. 156 | A Housing and Urban Development competition to retire certain housing loans, through 2029 |
| Sec. 157 | No Uniform Guidance rewrite for federal grants through December 11 |
| Sec. 2006 | Temporary Medicaid disaster relief for the Northern Mariana Islands |
| Sec. 2008 | African Growth and Opportunity Act extended to 2028 |
| Sec. 2019 | Hemp definition change delayed to December 11, except for lab-made cannabinoids |
| Sec. 4304 | $130,191,781 for supportive services for very low-income veteran families |
Collins's August 2 statement had already named "shipbuilding across multiple vessels" and the Disaster Relief Fund alongside WIC.47481
People who already receive federal grants keep working under today's rules, and new ones wait. Section 104 bars using the money "to initiate or resume any project or activity" not funded in 2026; section 109 says "no grants shall be awarded for such programs funded by this Act that would impinge on final funding prerogatives"; section 110 requires "only the most limited funding action." That is the baseline: no new starts, no front-loaded grant rounds, and the Uniform Guidance rewrite postponed, which Collins, the Senate Appropriations chair, called a plan that "would politicize the grant process." The act then writes its own exceptions: military construction for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps "not otherwise authorized by law," and a Housing and Urban Development competition, "including a first-come, first served competition," to retire certain housing loans through 2029.112
Roads are the exception to the exception. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials said the road and transit authorities continue, but because the stopgap "does not provide funding for the Division J advance appropriations programs contained within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act or IIJA," no 2027 money would be available October 1 for named rail, bridge, and charging programs, including "the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail grant program" and "the Bridge Formula Program."42
The December 11 deadline falls 38 days after the November 3 federal election. DeLauro's statement treats those 101 days as the time left to finish the twelve full-year bills.3111
Cole's list of who keeps getting paid or served is the floor record: service members, TSA, Social Security recipients, homebuyers seeking mortgages, people on nutrition assistance, disaster relief, and road and infrastructure projects. Those are the programs he named. The enrolled bill itself names the twelve 2026 appropriations acts it continues.91
recordOne named exception to a straight freeze is WIC, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Amounts for WIC "may be apportioned at the rate for operations necessary to maintain participation." The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which serves low-income seniors, may be spent at the rate needed to keep current caseload.1
recordSection 112 says amounts for civilian personnel compensation and benefits "may be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid furloughs." Funded agencies keep paying their civilian staff, and the budget office may release pay money at the rate needed to avoid furloughs.1
recordThe White House signing note also names surface transportation and veteran programs among the authorities the act extends. Those sit in the enrolled bill's later divisions, not in Cole's floor list.6
recordPeople who already receive federal grants keep working under today's rules. Section 157 only delays one proposed rewrite of the Uniform Guidance. Separately, section 104 bars using the money "to initiate or resume any project or activity" not funded in 2026; section 109 caps programs "that would otherwise have high initial rates of operation or complete distribution" and says "no grants shall be awarded for such programs funded by this Act that would impinge on final funding prerogatives"; section 110 requires "only the most limited funding action." That is the baseline: no new starts, no front-loaded grant rounds for programs that would otherwise pay out early in the year, and the Uniform Guidance rewrite postponed. The act then writes its own exceptions to the baseline. Section 146 lets the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps use stopgap and prior-year money for military construction "not otherwise authorized by law." Section 156 lets Housing and Urban Development run a competition, "including a first-come, first served competition," to retire certain housing loans through 2029. Collins, the Senate Appropriations chair, called the grants rule a plan that "would politicize the grant process."112
recordCurrent levels is the summary, not the whole act. The enrolled text runs to 108 numbered sections, and the Senate committee's summary lists sections 101 through 115 as the standard stopgap terms and the rest as exceptions and extensions. Among the named ones: up to $2,853,000,000 of defense procurement money for National Security Systems (section 127); military construction for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps (section 146); temporary Medicaid disaster relief for the Northern Mariana Islands (section 2006); $130,191,781 for supportive services for very low-income veteran families through December 11 (section 4304); and a two-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (section 2008). Collins's August 2 statement had already named "shipbuilding across multiple vessels" and the Disaster Relief Fund alongside WIC. Who gets an exception is where the freeze stops being a freeze.14847
recordThe American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials said the road and transit authorities continue, but because the stopgap "does not provide funding for the Division J advance appropriations programs contained within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act or IIJA," no 2027 money would be available October 1 for named rail, bridge, and charging programs, including "the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail grant program" and "the Bridge Formula Program."42
recordThe coverage
The held articles were checked against the enrolled bill, the Clerk's roll call, the Senate roll call, and the White House signing note. Political color (who engineered past shutdowns, who waved the white flag) is the speaker's or the member's record, not a finding of the bill.2
Nine outlet cards: one mislabeled, one consistent, seven that check out.
wrote on September 2 that the president signed the stopgap into law, funding the government "until at least Dec. 11."
Mislabeled. The margins match the two roll calls.
The date does not match section 106. At least makes December 11 a minimum; the law makes it the outer date. The money ends at the earlier of a full-year act or December 11.
wrote on September 1 that the House passed the bill 370-48 with 19 Republicans and 29 Democrats opposed, a Senate margin of 90-6, and attributed some Republican opposition to a "short-term delay of a ban on intoxicating hemp products" and the grants rule.
Consistent. The counts check out against the Clerk and the Senate's Bill Passed (90-6, 3/5 majority required).
The grants rule is in the bill. The hemp characterization is The Hill's; the bill's heading is SECTION 781 EXTENSION, the delay is real, and the lab-made-cannabinoid part is not delayed.
wrote that the House passed a continuing resolution through December 11 "By a count of 370 to 48," with 19 Republicans and 29 Democrats opposed, that the Senate had passed it on August 8, and that the vote sent the measure to the president.
Checks out. The figures check out against the Clerk and the Senate file.
Sent to the president was true on September 1; it was not yet law.
reported "The House passed the bill by a vote of 370-48," that the Senate had already approved it, and Cole's certainty line; through DeLauro, that the Senate text prevents Homeland Security from transferring funds to the Border Patrol and delays a grants rule. PBS NewsHour ran the same dispatch.
Checks out. The vote, the Senate line, and the quote check out.
The grants delay is section 157. The Border Patrol sentence is Murray's wording; the record behind it is the Homeland Security law this act carries forward, which bars moving money into Customs and Border Protection's border-security operations account.
reported that the House "passed the measure in a 370 to 48 vote" after leaders fast-tracked it, a two-thirds majority, Senate approval in early August, and a December 11 expiry.
Checks out. Those check out.
Its line that funding is now set to expire on December 11 was, on September 1, a description of the bill the House had just passed, not of a signed law.
reported the bill "sailed through the chamber by a vote of 370-48," funding through December 11, and that it would go to the president, who was expected to sign it.
Checks out for a September 1 dispatch.
The signature came the next day.
reported "The legislation passed the House 370-48 with bipartisan support," current levels with a few exceptions through December 11, and that the White House had encouraged the stopgap.
Checks out. The vote and the date check out.
The administration's August 3 statement is the White House paper on that encouragement.
Checks out. Each was checked the same way: the enrolled bill, the Clerk's roll call, the Senate roll call, and the White House signing note.
UPI, September 1, 2026, reported 370-48, that "Twenty-nine Democrats and 19 Republicans voted against it," funding through December 11, and Senate approval in August. Checks out against the Clerk's party table.21
PBS NewsHour, September 1, 2026, ran the Associated Press dispatch: "The House passed the bill by a vote of 370-48," the Cole quote, and the Senate-already-passed line. The same AP copy checked above.20
One claim, examined
The coverage's claim: the House passed a funding bill, avoiding a shutdown
The House, by a two-thirds vote, agreed to Senate amendments to H.R. 6500. That vote did not itself appropriate a dollar. The enrolled bill appropriates at 2026 rates through December 11. The National Archives lists it as Public Law 119-103, H.R. 6500, approved September 2, 2026, and the White House recorded the signature that day. "Avoiding a shutdown" is a fair description of the effect after that signature. It is the wrong description of what the September 1 roll call, standing alone, did. Until the signature, the September 30 lapse date had not moved.14262
The Clerk's surviving "AGOA Extension Act" label is stale as a title: the House that afternoon adopted a stopgap. It is not wrong about content. The Senate rewrote the bill into a stopgap and kept a two-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act inside it.2251
From house-roll286.xml totals-by-party: Republican 193 yea, 19 nay, 6 not voting; Democratic 176 yea, 29 nay, 8 not voting; Independent 1 yea. Sum of yeas 193 + 176 + 1 = 370. Sum of nays 19 + 29 = 48. Not voting 6 + 8 = 14. Member rows in that file: 432. The September 1 Congressional Record Daily Digest: "the whole number of the House is 432."29 Senate vote 228 XML: 90 yeas, 6 nays, 1 present, 3 absent. Archives current-laws row: 119-103 H.R. 6500 Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027 Sept. 2, 2026 140 Stat. 987 24.
September 1 close
Reuters, via MarketScreener, reported that on September 1 the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 418.97 points, or 0.79 percent, to 52,766.93, the S&P 500 lost 54.67 points, or 0.71 percent, to 7,631.47, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 271.11 points, or 1.03 percent, to 26,099.77. The wire attributed the move to yields and oil. It does not mention the funding bill.43
Nine saved articles and the White House and OMB records were searched for market, Treasury, stock and ratings language on September 8; none carry a priced reaction. The MarketScreener pin is the priced close. A betting-site summary of Kalshi's October 1 shutdown contract is not the exchange's record, so it is not on this page.
September 2
On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, the president signed H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027. The White House note says the act provides fiscal year 2027 appropriations through December 11, 2026, and extends authorities including surface transportation and veteran programs. The National Archives lists it as 119-103, September 2, 2026, 140 Stat. 987, 24 pages. Collins, after the House vote and before the signature, had said she hoped the stopgap would "quickly be signed into law" so work could return to the twelve bills.62612
The same afternoon as the stopgap, the House agreed to H. Res. 1499, a rule for other bills, 210 to 208: Republicans 207 to 5, Democrats 2 to 203, Independent Kiley yes. The two Democrats who voted yes were Golden (ME), Perez. That rule set the terms of debate for H.R. 1501, H.R. 9436, H.R. 4795, and H. Res. 1490; it did not touch the stopgap, which had already passed.346
The Guardian and Axios carried a joint statement from Jeffries, Clark, and Aguilar on that rule vote: the two Democrats had "blindside the entire House Democratic Caucus," a "significant breach of trust," and "we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order." Axios reported that Golden "defended his vote by noting that the rule also contained a bill he co-authored to shield lobstermen."3435
Watching: whether any of the twelve full-year 2027 appropriations bills is signed before December 11; whether the Uniform Guidance rewrite or the hemp delay is extended past that date, because both also end then; and whether a further stopgap is needed once the new Congress is organized.111
The White House briefing note dated September 2 says that on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, the president signed H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027. The note says the act provides fiscal year 2027 appropriations through December 11, 2026, and extends authorities including surface transportation and veteran programs.6
recordThe National Archives current public-laws list records it as 119-103, H.R. 6500, Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, September 2, 2026, 140 Stat. 987, 24 pages.26
recordCollins, after the House vote and before the signature, said she hoped the stopgap would "quickly be signed into law" so work could return to the twelve bills. The White House note is that signature.12
recordThe same afternoon, after the stopgap, the House agreed to H. Res. 1499, a rule for other bills, 210 to 208. Republicans voted 207 to 5. Democrats voted 2 to 203. Independent Kiley voted yes. The five Republicans who voted no were Harris (MD), Higgins (LA), Norman, Roy, Sessions. The two Democrats who voted yes were Golden (ME), Perez. That rule set the terms of debate for three other bills and a resolution, H.R. 1501, H.R. 9436, H.R. 4795, and H. Res. 1490; it did not touch the stopgap, which had already passed.346
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