Here we go again. The federal government is not funded past next Friday, Sep. 30.

The House early Friday narrowly approved a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running into October, as Republican leaders secured the votes of conservatives who rejected a similar bill a day earlier.

The 219-203 vote sets up a confrontation with the Senate, where Democratic leaders have vowed to block the measure in a dispute over federal disaster aid.

For Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the vote was little more than a mulligan. After 48 Republicans opposed his bill on Wednesday, he faced a choice: Scrap a spending cut to win over Democrats who had pulled their support for the bill, or persuade dissenting conservatives that the original bill was the best deal they could get.

Boehner chose his right flank…

Democrats opposed the GOP bill en masse because it partially offsets $3.65 billion in funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency with a $1.5 billion cut to a separate Department of Energy manufacturing loan program.

House approves stopgap funding, Reid says Senate will block

via: sarahlee310

Income redistribution the GOP way: tax cuts for the wealthy, spending cuts for the rest of us.