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Congress's 2026 funding deal to avoid a shutdown before the midterms

Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026

In the summer of 2026 Congress passed a keeping the federal government open until December 11, avoiding a shutdown before the midterm elections.[1][2] The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support,[1] though a White House push to delay a federal ban on intoxicating hemp products briefly snarled it.[3] Lawmakers face another funding deadline in December.[4]

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The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support,[1] though a White House push to delay a federal ban on intoxicating hemp products briefly snarled it.[3] Lawmakers face another funding deadline in December.[4]

Coverage over time

Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)

Week of 2026-07-20 (UTC): 6%, 36 of 562 tracked outlets (5 left, 19 center, 12 right)Week of 2026-07-27 (UTC): 5%, 27 of 561 tracked outlets (3 left, 19 center, 5 right)Week of 2026-08-03 (UTC): 12%, 67 of 537 tracked outlets (8 left, 38 center, 21 right)Week of 2026-08-10 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-08-17 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-08-24 (UTC): under 1%, 1 of 466 tracked outlets (0 left, 0 center, 1 right)Week of 2026-08-31 (UTC): 11%, 54 of 475 tracked outlets (15 left, 30 center, 9 right)Week of 2026-09-07 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-09-14 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-09-21 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-09-28 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-10-05 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-10-12 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-10-19 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-10-26 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-11-02 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-11-09 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outlets, so far

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Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings.We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 2 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.

Weekly counts, outlets and reports (5 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)LeftCenterRightOf trackedShareReceipts
Aug 31, 20261530954 of 47511%
Aug 24, 20260011 of 466under 1%
Aug 3, 20268382167 of 53712%
Jul 27, 2026319527 of 5615%
Jul 20, 20265191236 of 5626%

Latest coverage

The newest reporting in this story's record.

  1. Sep 2, 2026 · first reported · Headline from KARK Little Rock

    Trump signs stopgap funding bill into law, temporarily avoiding shutdown

Background

House Republicans first scheduled a vote in July on funding through December 4.[5] Senate Republicans neared a deal with Democrats that also reined in a White House budget office rule giving Trump appointees more power to withhold ,[6] and the Senate advanced the bill 89-4.[7] The hemp fight delayed it,[3] and the Senate passed the measure in an overnight vote on August 8, with lawmakers still smarting from earlier shutdowns, including the 2025 one followed in its own arc.[2] When the House returned in September, it passed the bill, extending funding to December 11 and pushing back the hemp ban by four weeks.[1][8] The 2026 Homeland Security lapse is covered in a separate arc.

Supporting stories (8)
  1. House sends government funding bill to Trump to avert shutdown ahead of midterms
  2. Senate approves funding bill to avoid shutdown before election
  3. Surprise GOP hemp fight drags funding bill
  4. Trump signs stopgap funding bill into law, temporarily avoiding shutdown
  5. House passes temporary government funding bill months early to avoid election season shutdown
  6. Senate GOP close to cutting deal to avoid shutdown
  7. Senate leaders reach funding deal to avoid shutdown during campaign season
  8. Hemp ban set to be delayed a month after House passes funding bill

The full record

Each date is when an update was first reported.

All 10 recorded updates

September 2026

  1. Trump signs stopgap funding bill into law, temporarily avoiding shutdownHeadline from FOX 21 Colorado Springs · 2 outlets

August 2026

  1. House sends government funding bill to Trump to avert shutdown ahead of midtermsHeadline from KRDO · 49 outlets
  2. House lawmakers return to Washington with a stopgap funding bill atop the list of prioritiesHeadline from KAAL Rochester · 11 outlets
  3. Hemp ban set to be delayed a month after House passes funding billHeadline from The Hill · 9 outlets
  4. Senate approves funding bill to avoid shutdown before electionHeadline from The Columbian · 48 outlets
  5. Surprise GOP hemp fight drags funding billHeadline from Phl17 · 10 outlets
  6. US Senate throws Minnesota’s hemp-based THC industry a lifelineHeadline from Brainerd Dispatch · 11 outlets
  7. Senate leaders reach funding deal to avoid shutdown during campaign seasonHeadline from Daily Journal · 26 outlets

July 2026

  1. Senate GOP close to cutting deal to avoid shutdownHeadline from The Hill · 7 outlets
  2. House passes temporary government funding bill months early to avoid election season shutdownHeadline from NBC Los Angeles · 37 outlets

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