WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a stopgap funding bill to tide federal agencies over through the week before Thanksgiving, including an extra $88 million to help provide additional security for officials in all three branches of government and a typical array of “extenders” for programs lapsing Sept. 30.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will now try to muscle the 91-page bill through the House with Republican support this week, with few Democrats if any expected to back the measure. Johnson said Tuesday he is aiming for a vote by Friday, and the House Rules panel scheduled a meeting later Tuesday to consider the terms of floor debate.

The bill includes funding adjustments requested by the White House, including a “D.C. fix” enabling the city to spend more of its own funds and authority for certain agencies to spend at a rate needed to prevent disruptions.

That includes a major new cash infusion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief fund and enough money up front for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children to maintain current participation levels.

The measure also includes extensions of popular health care and veterans provisions, the customary death gratuity for the beneficiaries of deceased lawmakers, and maintains the current pay freeze for lawmakers and senior executive branch officials including Vice President JD Vance.

It also would extend various national security-related programs, including authorizations to continue monitoring and intercepting potential drone threats at large public events and extend liability protections for businesses that share information with the government on cybersecurity incidents.

And while the House and Senate Agriculture panels negotiate a multiyear reauthorization, the measure would temporarily extend provisions of a century-old grain standards law that if allowed to lapse would disrupt U.S. grain exports and cost the farm economy more than $70 million a day, according to House Agriculture Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa.

Current funding for federal agencies expires after Sept. 30, with a partial government shutdown beginning the next day unless President Donald Trump signs stopgap legislation. Both chambers are scheduled to be in recess next week, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Monday that his chamber could potentially take the bill up this weekend if the House can send it over in time.

Democrats in both chambers are talking tough, however, arguing they had no input into the bill’s drafting and it lacks key provisions extending enhanced subsidies for health insurance coverage on federal and state exchanges that expire after Dec. 31. Johnson called that a “December policy issue, not a September funding issue.”

But if Democrats remain united, they can block the bill and force a shutdown, which they are betting Trump and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill will get the blame for.

Republicans “clearly want to shut things down because they don’t want to negotiate with Democrats,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday. “They don’t want to do anything about the fact that people’s premiums are about to shoot through the roof.”

A handful of House Republicans have come out in opposition, though Trump’s advocacy has traditionally been enough to get many of those members to support similar measures this year. “Republicans have to stick TOGETHER to fight back against the Radical Left Democrat demands, and vote “YES!” on the stopgap bill, Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social.

Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, have all said they would vote “no,” though it’s not clear all of them will follow through when the measure gets to the floor.

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(David Lerman and Olivia M. Bridges contributed to this report.)

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