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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Monday, September 23rd.

Speaker Johnson officially bowed to bipartisan beltway pressure last night, releasing a CR that funds the government through late December, as appropriators wanted all along.

House Republican leaders expect a vote on their three-month

CR, which expires December 20th, the Friday before the year-end holiday recess, mind you, on Wednesday.

That's according to a top aide. The move officially defies Donald Trump, who, as you know, has been

posting on social media that Republicans should effectively shut the government down without key voting reforms.

In a letter to his members announcing the move, Johnson pushed back on that pre-election showdown idea.

He said history has taught us and current polling affirms that shutting the government down less than 40 days from a fateful election would be an act of political malpractice.

So what's in this bill? Yes, there's an infusion of new

cash for the Secret Service, which comes just over a week after the second failed assassination

attempt on Trump. It's an interesting development given that Republicans initially balked at this

additional funding, but a birdie tells playbook that Trump's inner circle personally got involved

to make sure these funds landed.

And yet, while the legislation does provide $231 million for the Secret Service, it also links

that money to new requirements, as our colleagues Jordan Carney and Jennifer Schulte's note.

The bill requires that the agency hand over its report on the July 13th assassination attempt to

the House Task Force. It also requires

that DHS reply to two letters the House Task Force said last month by a new timeline.

So what's out of the bill? The SAVE Act. That's the GOP's nationwide voter ID requirement.

That's been a key priority for both Johnson and Trump. The life of the continuing resolution is

also half as long as Johnson was

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