As House members finished voting for the week and left Washington, the lead Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, voiced frustration that Republicans had yet to respond to her latest offer on a full-year spending bill,

The government runs out of funding on March 14, and averting a shutdown will likely require bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.

As a funding deadline looms, the Democrats say Congress has ceded too much power to the president on spending and tariffs.

With exactly two weeks until the federal government shuts down, lawmakers are running out of time to craft a government spending package and are scrambling to produce a temporary funding extension. The stopgap,