Congress has until Oct. 1 to fund the government during the pre-Election Day sprint. With the abbreviated timeline, lawmakers will almost certainly need to pass a stopgap measure to keep the government funded — leaving the full-year funding effort for a later date.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he will act later in the day to advance a bipartisan government funding bill after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) failed to pass a partisan six-month funding measure that was tied to voter registration reform.