The House voted Tuesday night to advance a package of appropriations bill that are dead on arrival in the Senate and would not avert a government shutdown . House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dismissed the bipartisan Senate stopgap measure telling reporters on Tuesday night Let me know when they pass that bill and saying that he had talked to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell earlier in the day . McCarthy said the House will consider a separate stopgap bill with border provisions likely on Friday regardless of whether GOP leadership is confident the votes are there to pass it . Hardline conservatives have railed against the prospect of a shortterm funding extension and many oppose additional aid to Ukraine two major obstacles to finding consensus with the Senate . The Senate bill which would keep the government funded until November includes . billion in Ukraine aid and billion for natural disasters. McCarthy has little room to maneuver with only a narrow majority . The vote was closely watched after McCarthy lost two procedural rule votes last week in what amounted to a major embarrassment for the House GOP leadership in the House last week . The shutdown would have major impacts that would be felt across the country. If that were to happen many government operations would come to a halt while some services deemed essential would continue to continue to . continue to be shut down in shutdown . If it were to shut down, many government services would be affected by a shutdown, including the . million federal employees who would not be paid until the shutdown . shutdown. If it was to shutdown, it would undermine national security. If a shutdown were to close, the . government shutdown would . continue, they would continue, and the .mundundundable. government operations were to continue, the.mundestanding the . mundundestandundunded shutdowns would be .
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