The Senate’s top Republican leader said Monday he wants the chamber to vote on a stopgap funding bill before lawmakers leave town for a scheduled weeklong recess.

“I’d like to get it — if we can get it from the House — get it done this week before we leave,” Majority Leader John Thune told reporters.

However, getting the measure quickly from the House is in fact a big “if.” House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters Monday that his chamber might not pass the expected continuing resolution, which is expected to keep the government open through Nov. 20, until Thursday or Friday.

House leaders continued to discuss Monday how much new member security funding to add to the stopgap in light of the assassination last week of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which has contributed to the delay.

It could take days for the Senate to get to an initial vote after House passage if all 100 senators can’t agree to move faster. Republicans will need help from Democrats there to advance the funding bill, and senators are already bracing for the possibility of weekend work.

Both chambers are scheduled to be out of Washington next week for the observance of Rosh Hashanah. If the stopgap funding bill gets delayed in the House, Senate Republicans have left the door open to returning after the holiday next week, when they will only be days from the end-of-month shutdown deadline.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has warned that Democrats will oppose the stopgap bill unless Republicans negotiate with them, including on Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. Schumer hasn’t drawn a red line on what specific policy concessions Democrats would need, saying only that there needs to be a “bipartisan negotiation.”

“We want to keep the government open by engaging in bipartisan negotiation,” Schumer said Monday, adding of Republicans: “If one side refuses to negotiate they are the ones causing the shutdown.”

Republicans continued to insist Monday that the stopgap would be “clean,” without divisive policy provisions, leaving Democrats no reason to oppose it. “Nothing in there is going to cause anybody to vote ‘no’ that would otherwise vote ‘yes,’” Cole said.

Thune left the door open Monday to include new funding for member security after Speaker Mike Johnson separately told reporters that he’s still working to “build consensus” with members on a security funding plan.

Thune also suggested that legislation from Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) related to Russia is unlikely to be attached to the stopgap. The legislation would impose tariffs on countries that import Russian energy and implement secondary sanctions on foreign firms that support Russian energy production

Graham and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) issued a joint statement over the weekend, first reported by POLITICO, urging colleagues to link their bill to government funding.

Thune said he hoped the legislation is “ripe here soon” but said Republicans are continuing to wait on President Donald Trump to lay the groundwork with U.S. allies first.

“I think this needs to be everybody taking the same tack when it comes to addressing the situation,” he said.

Two House Republicans say they will oppose Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to pass a “clean” stopgap spending bill this week that would punt a possible government shutdown into November, threatening GOP leaders’ plan to jam Senate Democrats ahead of the Sept. 30 funding deadline.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who regularly opposes leadership-backed spending bills, said in a brief interview Monday he would oppose the new expected continuing resolution as well.

“I am a No unless it cuts spending, which I do not anticipate,” he said.

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) said in an X post Sunday night that she was also a “no,” saying she could not “cannot support [a CR] that ends funding right before a major holiday to jam us with an Omnibus.” The Johnson-backed measure is expected to expire on the Friday before Thanksgiving.

Two “no” votes would put House Republicans at risk of losing a party-line vote if one additional GOP member breaks ranks. Spartz, it should be noted, has a long history of delivering ultimatums only to change her mind before under pressure from the White House.

Leaders are aiming to unveil text as soon as Monday, though they still need to work out final details of adding enhanced member security funding following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Two people granted anonymity to candidly describe the private talks said it could end up on a separate package of several full-year funding bills.

Other Republicans, meanwhile, are airing their displeasure with Johnson’s strategy — even though a similar play was credited with forcing a Democratic surrender back in March, the last time lawmakers dealt with a shutdown deadline.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted Monday that another CR would continue funding levels established under former President Joe Biden, referring to it as “Biden’s budget that FUNDS TRANSGENDER POLICIES, NOT our own Trump policy budget that funds what you voted for.”

She also criticized Johnson for holding “zero meetings” about the stopgap plan and continuing a “charade” of an appropriations process. But she did not say explicitly that she would oppose it.

Republicans are getting ready to reveal a short-term bill to fund the government through Nov. 20, despite Democrats’ demands for buy-in in any legislation to avert a shutdown.

Text of the continuing resolution is expected to be released as early as Monday morning, according to three Republicans. Here’s the latest:

The timeline: House Republicans want to put the CR on the floor this week. That still likely won’t give the Senate enough time to schedule a vote before next week’s recess in observance of Rosh Hashanah, however, leaving Congress with just days left to act before the Sept. 30 deadline.

The holdup: House Republican leaders are working to attach increased lawmaker security funding to the stopgap bill in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox on Sunday morning that all options are on the table, and three people tell Meredith it’s the final piece to resolve. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has also been doing some last-minute lobbying for his bipartisan Russia sanctions bill to hitch a ride on the CR. But two people granted anonymity to discuss the views of GOP leadership say it’s not going in without President Donald Trump’s explicit and public backing.

The big problem: Democrats in both chambers insist they will not accept any funding agreement without bipartisan talks, and Republicans are going it alone. They also say they need the CR to include an extension of enhanced tax credits for Affordable Care Act insurance premiums, which are due to expire at the end of the year. Republicans are still figuring out how to proceed on that one.

A key question is how Democrats will vote in the Senate, where Republicans won’t be able to move government funding legislation without support across the aisle. Many Republicans are banking on a do-over of what happened in March, when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer shored up support for a procedural vote on a shutdown-averting package negotiated only among the GOP.

But Schumer got an earful from his party’s base about not fighting harder for a better deal, and he’s currently warning his GOP colleagues that a CR without the ACA credit extension is a deal-breaker.

“If Republicans follow Donald Trump’s orders to not even bother dealing with Democrats they will be single handedly putting our country on the path toward a shutdown,” said a Schumer spokesperson Sunday night.

Some Senate Democrats have suggested they could support a “clean” stopgap funding bill now if it’s intended to buy more time toward negotiating an ACA subsidies extension later. But many of them are holding back on opining without first knowing what Republicans are officially offering.

“I’m not going to comment until I see what actually happens. It’s all speculation right now,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) told Blue Light News.

What else we’re watching:   

— Senate rules change: This week Majority Leader John Thune will steer Senate Republicans toward finalizing their rules change to allow most executive branch nominees to be confirmed in batches. It will put Republicans on track to confirm their first tranche of 48 nominees including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich to be ambassadors to Greece and Switzerland, respectively.

— DC bills get House vote: It’s shaping up to be a major week for the District of Columbia on Capitol Hill. A slate of bills will come to the House floor that would override laws put in place by the D.C. government, and the capital city’s top three leaders will appear before a key committee. This comes after Trump’s month-long federal takeover of D.C.’s police department and as the National Guard continues to patrol the city’s streets. Republicans remain intent on casting Washington as an example of a Democratic-led jurisdiction overrun by violent crime.

— Miran confirmation: The Senate is poised to confirm Stephen Miran Monday evening to the Federal Reserve, just around a month after the Trump ally was first nominated. The chamber has moved at blinding speed to install Miran so he can be in seat when the Fed kicks off its September meeting Tuesday, at which time the central bank is widely expected to cut interest rates.

Meredith Lee Hill, Jordain Carney and Hailey Fuchs contributed to this report.