Firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert chided that House Speaker Mike Johnson’s spending patch flop would “screw our country more times over than a Diddy freak off.”

Congress comes back on Monday after a six-week summer break that included a transformed presidential race and tightening polls in battleground states.

The White House on Monday issued a strong rebuke to a partisan proposal recently rolled out by GOP leadership to avert a government shutdown later this month, as both sides dig in their heels in a

House Republicans will try to pass Speaker Mike Johnson’s bill to fund the government this week and avoid a shutdown on Oct. 1.

The legislation faces an uphill climb in the House and has no chance in the Senate. The vast majority of Democrats oppose it, and some Republicans do, too, but for different reasons.

Speaker Mike Johnson said the House would vote Wednesday on a measure to keep the government funded that includes voting legislation Democrats oppose.

The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote Wednesday on a stopgap spending bill that would extend government funding for six months and require Americans to provide proof of citizenship when they vote,