The House passed a bill to fund the government through February 18 on Thursday evening, though a shutdown on Friday still looms thanks to anti-vaccine mandate Republicans in the Senate.
Just one House Republican, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, voted alongside the Democratic majority to keep the government open - in a vote of 221-212.
For the deal to move quickly through the Senate would require unanimous consent - meaning zero senators can go rogue.
It is not clear that the bill will move through the upper chamber without objection, as Republicans have plotted to hold up government spending over President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate.
Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Rosa DeLauro said that the deal included virtually no new spending, but it does include $7 billion for Afghan refugees.
'With a new deadline of February 18, there is ample time for Republicans to join us for bipartisan, bicameral appropriations negotiations,' DeLauro said in a statement after passage.
DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, had originally only wanted to extend the funding for two weeks, but lawmakers on both sides pushed for a longer timeline to hash out fiscal year 2022's budget.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus wrote a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urging him to stall the legislation in the Senate, but the Kentucky Republican has signaled he has no appetite for a shutdown.
'We won't shut down,' he told reporters. 'I think we'll get there, and certainly nobody should be concerned about a government shutdown.'
But McConnell will have to get a few rogue members of his caucus on board, as the bill will go into lengthy debate sure to extend beyond Friday night
