Sentence examples for a stopgap resolution from inspiring English sources

Except for the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, the government is being financed under a stopgap resolution.

It is a stopgap solution.

But it was clearly a stopgap solution.

Charity can never be more than a stopgap solution.

However, the trust now feels more like a stopgap solution.

And it is not a moment too soon because when the stopgap resolution that is financing the government expires on March 4, the House will have significant leverage to get its way.

Because Congress will again fail to enact its spending bills on time, the government will run out of operating money Oct. 1 unless lawmakers approve a stopgap "continuing resolution" — or C.R. — to keep the money flowing.

On Wednesday, by a 267-to-151 vote, the House approved a stopgap spending resolution to keep the government running for the last half of the fiscal year, replacing the one that expires on March 27.

Congress, unable to pass any of the necessary 12 appropriations bills for the fiscal year that started on October 1st, is relying on a stopgap "continuing resolution" that funds the government at existing levels, but only until December 3rd.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans blocked a $410 billion omnibus spending measure on Thursday night, forcing Congressional Democrats to prepare a stopgap budget resolution to keep the federal government from shutting down.

The only other change to the resolution that Senate Democrats will try to make is to limit the duration of the stopgap resolution to mid-November, hoping to use the next six weeks to negotiate a more responsible budget.