WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Home of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson intends to carry a vote on Wednesday on a six-month stopgap federal funding measure, Punchbowl Information reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.

Except a stopgap spending invoice is distributed to President Joe Biden by midnight Sept. 30, the tip of the federal government’s present fiscal 12 months, many company operations will stop and hundreds of federal staff could be furloughed for lack of funds.

Final week, Johnson needed to abandon his try to move a spending invoice when it turned clear he didn’t have sufficient help for passage from his rank-and-file Republicans.

Any spending invoice would additionally must win passage within the Senate, the place Democrats who management the chamber oppose Republican efforts to connect an unrelated invoice that will require folks to supply proof of citizenship once they register to vote.

A shutdown might upset voters within the weeks earlier than the Nov. 5 elections, with management of each the Home and the Senate at stake.

The final authorities shutdown occurred on the finish of 2018 and stretched properly into January 2019.