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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) giving a statement to reporters Friday at the Capitol. | Francis Chung/POLITICO
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<p class="story-meta__authors">By <span class="vcard"><a href="https://www.politico.com/staff/caitlin-emma" target="_top">Caitlin Emma</a></span></p><p class="story-meta__timestamp">
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<p class="story-text__paragraph ">Congressional leaders will move next week to pass a two-tiered stopgap into March, with six days left until the first of two government shutdown deadlines.</p>
<p class="story-text__paragraph ">The new funding patch would keep federal agencies running on two different timeframes, like the current stopgap. Funding for some federal agencies would expire March 1, while funding for others would run through March 8, according to a source familiar with the proposal.</p>
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House and Senate leadership are both backing the plan, despite Speaker Mike Johnson’s earlier dismissal of the idea of clearing another short-term extension.{ai:summary}<p>Congressional leaders plan to pass a two-tiered stopgap to prevent government shutdowns, with funding for some federal agencies expiring on March 1 and others on March 8. #politics</p>

Congress readies ‘laddered’ March funding patch as shutdown looms

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