Congress races to pass the year’s final spending bills

Congress is scrambling to approve this year’s final spending bills before next week’s deadline. With another potential government shutdown looming next week, the House is looking to pass the final batch of spending bills, which total 1-point-2 trillion dollars. GOP leadership has faced questions over Department of Homeland Security funding and dealt with a dispute over ethanol. Speaker Mike Johnson can afford very few defections with his narrow Republican majority, but he was optimistic that the funding bills would pass.