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The healthcare tax credits at issue don't expire until the end of the year, he said, and a Democratic proposal would add too much new spending in a seven-week stopgap measure.

At least seven Democratic votes are needed in the Senate to pass a seven-week stopgap bill that cleared the House last week.

A stopgap bill was earlier passed in the House, or lower chamber, but is yet to clear the Senate.

Thus followed news that officers had been pulled off Harris’ security detail after internal criticism; supposedly the LAPD’s involvement had always been intended as a stopgap measure.

Current and former FDA officials said the concessions became a yearslong practice rather than a stopgap measure and that the protections put in place by the agency were not sufficient.