The deadline for the government shutdown is a week from today and House Republicans have just announced a two step continuing resolution to keep the government funded.

Speaker Johnson is calling it a ‘two step CR’ instead of a ‘laddered CR’, which you’ll see elsewhere:

 
Here’s the details:

 
This might help in understanding what’s going on via this weird jargon:

NBC News explains it this way: “Under the two-step strategy…several spending bills needed to keep the government open would catch a ride on a short-term bill until January 19, while the remaining bills would go on a CR until February 2.”

I think the long and short of it is that Speaker Johnson ultimately wants to pass the appropriate spending bills to fund everything instead of doing continuing resolutions. And this maneuver hopefully gets us to that point.