The House Vote Came, 370 to 48. The Grant Review Block That Touches Memphis Is One Signature From Law.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The House vote The 901 Report's August 10 post said was the last step before the President's desk happened on Tuesday, September 1, 2026. The House passed the continuing resolution 370 to 48, Government Executive and Army Times reported, keeping the federal government funded at current levels through December 11, 2026 and sending the measure to President Donald Trump. The Senate passed the same measure 90 to 6 in early August.

The provision this site has tracked since August rides with it. Government Executive reports the bill temporarily blocks the Office of Management and Budget's proposed rule requiring federal grant funding to be reviewed by political appointees, the change the August 10 post flagged as touching every Memphis agency that draws federal grant money, from housing to transit to public safety. The bill also prevents the administration from transferring funds from other programs to Border Patrol, per the same reporting.

House Speaker Mike Johnson framed the measure narrowly: "On this CR we'll take up, it simply holds funding steady at current levels through Dec. 11th, as Republicans work to complete the full year appropriations process," he said, per Government Executive. Rep. Tom Cole said it would "allow Congress time to get past the November elections." Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the House Appropriations Committee's senior Democrat, called it "a marked improvement" over earlier versions and "merely a means to complete this important work while averting a lapse."

The arithmetic of the vote is its own fact: 370 votes in a chamber that spent August publicly divided over the measure, four weeks before the October 1 deadline rather than four hours. With the Senate long since gone on the same bill, a shutdown on October 1 now depends only on the signature.

Why It Matters for Memphis

Federal grant money does not pause for drama in Washington until it does. A lapse on October 1 would have paused disbursements and furloughed the career staff who process them. If the President signs, that risk is off the calendar until December 11, and, as consequentially for Memphis, grant awards keep moving under career-staff review rather than waiting on political appointees, because the OMB rule stays blocked for the life of the stopgap. Every Memphis agency with a federal application pending, and the city and county grant offices behind them, operate under that blocked rule.

The Oversight Question

The stopgap blocks the political-appointee grant review rule only through December 11. When the block lapses, who in Washington will say whether the rule returns, and which Memphis grants would wait on appointees if it does?

Your city. Your money. Your receipts.