The House passed a short-term extension in government funding on Wednesday, temporarily avoiding a shutdown as Washington shifts its attention to the November election. 

Lawmakers easily passed the three-month measure, known as a continuing resolution, over the objection of some Republicans and former President Donald Trump, who wanted election security legislation attached. All Democrats voted in favor of the extension, with 82 Republicans opposed. 

The CR now heads to the Senate for a vote on Wednesday evening, after which President Joe Biden is expected to sign it before the Oct. 1 deadline.

The bill, which extends current spending levels until Dec. 20, buys lawmakers more time to negotiate a budget for fiscal 2025. It also punts that fight until after the election, when voters will decide control of Congress. House lawmakers will not return to Capitol Hill until Nov. 12.

The CR does not allocate new spending for most government agencies, according to legislative text released on Sunday. It does, however, include an additional $230 million for the Secret Service following two attempts on Trump’s life.

The bill’s passage follows a failed effort by House Republicans to extend government funding until March with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, a proof-of-citizenship voting bill, attached. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) initially demanded the voting legislation at the urging of Trump but later backtracked when it could not pass the House.

On Wednesday, hard-liners voted against the funding extension, which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanded be free of “poison pills.” Still, House GOP leaders framed the bill as a win, arguing they were able to fight off Democratic demands for spending increases.

The real fight will come in December, when Republicans seek to reduce federal spending below the caps set in debt limit negotiations with Biden last year. Kevin McCarthy, then the House speaker, benefitted from GOP unity in talks with the White House, but Republican infighting over the deal he brokered has weakened Johnson’s hand.

Johnson, who blames Senate Democrats for not passing any of their appropriations bills so far this year, has promised not to push through an end-of-year omnibus when lawmakers return to Washington despite the new funding deadline butting up against the Christmas recess. 

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Five of the House’s 12 appropriations bills have yet to be passed.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told the Washington Examiner she expects one, all-encompassing bill to be negotiated when lawmakers return in the fall.