Kevin Freking, Associated Press

The Senate approved the measure by a vote of 78-18 shortly after the House approved it. The bill generally funds agencies at current levels through Dec. 20.

Johnson, R-La., has come under heavy criticism from some Republicans for moving forward with aid for Ukraine as part of a $95 billion emergency spending package that passed this month.

Democrats were largely able to swat back hundreds of policy mandates and some of the steeper budget cuts that House Republicans were seeking to impose on nondefense programs.

The Senate is expected to take up the legislation before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline.

The short-term extension is the fourth in recent months, and many lawmakers expect it to be the last for the current fiscal year.

One GOP congressman recalled late Alaska Rep. Don Young telling him that House Republican newcomers “don’t have a clue” about governing.

The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108, with opposition coming mostly from the more conservative members of the Republican conference.

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama had blocked hundreds of military promotions over a dispute about a Pentagon abortion policy.

The first-term Republican becomes just the sixth member of the House to be ousted by colleagues.

The New York Republican easily survived an expulsion vote earlier this month as lawmakers in both parties stressed the need to allow due process as he faces nearly two dozen charges in federal court.

The New York Republican blasted the report as a “politicized smear.”

The Freedom Caucus demands are a smorgasbord of non-starters for the Democratic-controlled Senate and the White House, signaling the challenges House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will face to get a spending bill passed.

The bill is unlikely to advance further because the Democratic-led Senate will not support it and the White House said President Biden would veto it.

Santos has given no indication that he plans to voluntarily give up his seat in Congress.

House Republicans flailed through a second day struggling to elect a speaker for the new Congress, with no apparent off-ramp from the political chaos they have created.