House Passes Additional Stopgap Measure, Pentagon Funding

The House voted 247-181 Thursday to pass a bill that would both fund the government for one more week, albeit with $12 billion in cuts, and keep the Pentagon afloat until September.

“I would say to you we have put onto the floor now a measure that would avert a government shutdown and ensure our troops be paid,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said at a press conference following the vote.

The bill marks the third continuing resolution, and comes against a mounting threat of a government-wide shutdown this Friday.

House Democrats lambasted the bill and the White House has threatened to veto it.

Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the White House continue budget talks.