Biden threatens to veto House GOP spending extension, noncitizen voting ban bill

President Biden would veto a House Republican bill pairing a six-month government funding extension with a measure requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, the White House announced Monday.

In a statement of administration policy, the White House said the GOP proposal would needlessly set government spending “at insufficiently low levels” for six months, rather than providing a short-term stopgap to give Congress more time to pass new spending bills.

Continuing resolutions, or CRs, the congressional parlance for stopgaps extending current funding and policies into the next fiscal year, should always be as short as possible, the White House said.