House to vote on stopgap funding bill as lawmakers scramble to avoid government shutdown – US politics live

Speaker Mike Johnson to launch a floor vote designed to prevent any federal shutdown before the November midterms Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.

House speaker Mike Johnson will launch a floor vote to pass the stopgap funding bill designed to keep the federal government fully funded through early December, removing the possibility of a shutdown before the midterm elections.

The Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump to continue building his $400m White House ballroom project.

In a 5-4 decision along political lines, the justices found that a group issuing a legal challenge against the ballroom did not have standing to bring their case.

Trump celebrated with a post on his Truth Social platform while Democrats criticized the decision.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down from his role after 18 months on the job, leaving another top military position vacant.

Driscoll and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had reportedly butted heads for some time.

Trump vowed further strikes on Iran and called it a “failed nation”.

The remarks came as Washington and Tehran exchanged their first military strikes in a month.

JD Vance gave a speech in Michigan that included an attacked against Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed .

“There’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil,” Vance told the crowd.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney of turning their trade dispute into a “political shouting match”.

Carney had rejected the Trump administration’s terms that would have given the US government extensive power over Canada’s trade policy.

California Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to block the appointment of election denier Tina Peters , who was convicted in 2024 in relation to a plot to chase pro-Trump election conspiracies.