Will a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown reach Trump's desk before Aug 15?
68% of users predicted YES — the community missed this one. 28 predictions cast.
The Senate passed a stopgap continuing resolution by a bipartisan 90-6 vote on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026, that would fund the federal government through Dec. 11, pushing the shutdown deadline past the November midterm elections. The bill did not reach President Trump's desk before Aug. 15 because it still needed to clear the House, which had already passed its own, differing version of the stopgap measure, funding the government only through Dec. 4, before leaving for its August recess.
The two chambers' bills diverged on several provisions, including Border Patrol funding-transfer authority and grant-review rules for political appointees, differences that required reconciliation before a single bill could go to the president. Because the House was not scheduled to reconvene until Aug. 31, no further action was possible before mid-August. The underlying deadline was not immediately pressing either, since existing appropriations were not set to expire until Sept. 30.
Predict Six's community had voted 68% yes that the bill would reach Trump's desk before Aug. 15, but the question resolved no, since the House had already recessed without reconciling the Senate's changes.