Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s last-ditch effort to avert a government shutdown by passing a short-term spending bill succeeded in the House Saturday afternoon after the embattled speaker secured enough Democratic support to overcome the opposition of GOP hardliners.

The bill, which would fund the government for 45 days while negotiations over a long-term spending bill continue, was approved 335-91. Democrats who voted in favor totaled 209, more than compensating for the 90 Republicans who voted against it. The Senate, which has been developing its own bipartisan spending bill to keep the government open through November 17, is expected to pass the House measure, called a continuing resolution (CR). If the Senate follows through, a government shutdown will be averted for 45 days.

McCarthy needed the support of scores of Democrats to pass the bill, given the two-thirds majority required to pass legislation under suspension of the rules. Though the Democratic caucus balked at the lack of additional Ukraine aid in the bill, enough members got on board as debate concluded Saturday.

“What I am asking, Republicans and Democrats alike, put your partisanship away,” McCarthy said. “Focus on the American public.”

McCarthy faced a lot of pressure from within his caucus to not pursue a CR throughout the multi-day proceedings. A group of House Freedom Caucus hardliners led by Representative Matt Gaetz have long vowed to force a vote of no confidence if McCarthy tried to work around them to pass a short-term spending bill.

The GOP holdouts, who made McCarthy’s ascension to the speakership a grueling uphill battle, say they’re motivated by process concerns and have insisted on passing individual bills to fund various parts of the government, a departure from the status quo in which the entire government is funded through one massive, omnibus spending bill.

“Do these things or face a motion to vacate the chair,” Gaetz said on the House floor on September 12, warning that McCarthy could face daily votes of no confidence.

“If we have to begin every single day in Congress with the prayer, the pledge, and the motion to vacate then so be it,” Gaetz told reporters earlier this month.

Reaching across the aisle, Gaetz has also been trying to recruit Democrats to join the McCarthy ouster plot, a House Democrat told CNN.

In response, McCarthy said Saturday that “if I have to risk my job standing up for the American public, I will do it.”

The bill’s passage in the House drastically decreases the odds that the government will shutdown Saturday at midnight. In the event that the Senate fails to enact it, National Parks will be shuttered Monday and non-essential federal workers furloughed. Essential workers, including military service members, would continue to work, but their pay would be held until the government reopens.