U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday he hoped to pass a "clean" stopgap federal funding bill that would freeze funding at current levels to avert a partial government shutdown that could otherwise go into effect on March 15.

The House on Tuesday evening approved a budget resolution that lays the framework for President Donald Trump's agenda, likely extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts and boosting defense spending in exchange for trillions in spending curbs—after Republicans divisions threatened to imperil the bill, which marked the first major test of the new Congress.