In an effort to prevent a shutdown prior to the impending midterm elections, the Senate passed a package on Saturday that would extend government funding until December 11.

More than a month before the September 30 deadline, the chamber decided to address the financing deadline. However, it's unclear if lawmakers will be able to avoid a funding dispute next month.

The House would then need to consider the Senate-passed bill, but its future there is unknown because that body has already approved a different bill.

A lack of funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, which have already been funded thru the end of President Donald Trump's term, and a temporary block on a proposed administration rule that critics warn would further politicize federal grants are two ways that the Senate measure differs from a funding extension passed by the House.

The Senate departs for its August break.

In an effort to complete a variety of legislative tasks before leaving Washington to return to their home states for the August recess, senators voted in favor of the funding package early on Saturday morning.

Ultimately, the Senate rejected a voter ID bill and confirmed acting attorney general Todd Blanche as the permanent head of the Department of Justice in addition to passing the bill to extend government funding into December.

However, after President Donald Trump called several senators into a late meeting at the Capitol on Friday nite to discuss their options, Senate Republicans decided to postpone a vote on their budget resolution, which was supposed to be a party-line package containing defense funding and portions of a contentious elections bill, for the time being, according to those senators.

GOP Senator Mike Lee had stated that he would oppose any attempt to expedite consideration and depart if the budget resolution failed, and Trump had insisted that the Senate approve it before departing for their recess. For months, Lee and Trump have been advocating for the president's election package, dubbed the "SAVE America Act."

Sen. Ron Johnson, the chair of the Senate budget committee, told reporters that the president called a meeting in Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office on Friday nite. During the meeting, there was a unanimous agreement that the GOP senators would return to the drawing board for a "better" budget resolution, including more defense funding, that they can pursue when they return in September, instead of facing a failed vote to advance a budget resolution this week.

Additionally, the Republican leadership had intended to at least have a preliminary procedural vote on a bill that would regulate name, image, and likeness transactions in collegiate athletics, but senators were unable to come to an agreement on the package.