The House voted Tuesday to extend the debt ceiling until December 3, allowing the Treasury Department to borrow $480 billion to pay the nation's bills.
The vote was 219-206, with only Democrats voting in the affirmative and Republicans voting against.
Lawmakers passed the stopgap measure approved in the Senate last week, which will be promptly signed by President Joe Biden.
The vote was structured in such a way that members voted on a rule governing floor debate on three separate measures, allowing politically vulnerable lawmakers some cover, as they didn't have to vote specifically on a debt ceiling hike.
In the run-up to the vote, House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern hammered Republicans for resisting pushing up the debt limit.
'What we're doing here is paying for the bills that Donald Trump and the Republicans accumulated,' McGovern said on the House floor. 'It's like my Republican friends went to a fancy restaurant, drank champagne, ate caviar and ran out of the restaurant before paying the bill.'
The House passed a bill that would increase the debt ceiling - by $480 billion until December 3 - along straight party lines Tuesday night
House Rules Committee Chair Jim McGovern (left) went after Republicans for refusing to help Democrats lift the debt ceiling as House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (right) suggested Congress get rid of the debt limit altogether
'My friends are really good at creating messes and piling up big bills,' the Massachusetts Democrat charged.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was more charitable, saying both parties have added to the debt.
'Nobody has clean hands when it comes to the debt limit. Let me repeat, it is our debt, America's debt,' Hoyer said in a floor speech. 'We both went into that restaurant. We both got a steak.'
Hoyer, however, pushed for the debt limit to be abolished - and called the deal Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made with Democrats 'lousy.'
'All together it's a phony issue. It is a fraud. It is fake news,' the Maryland Democrat said.
In her floor speech, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had asked for bipartisan support -
