Republicans forced Democrats to vote on just the budget, giving a stop gap bill. The Democrats are still keen on continuing to force a government shutdown if they don't get billions of tax payers' dollars for Ukraine. This was the only reason of contention, holding up the funding bill, and risking shutdown.

Every year it is the same thing, Democrats demanding partisan pork or insane nonsense....then they get their weaponized media to trick the world into thinking Republicans are causing a government shutdown if they refuse to pass a bill with their pork. This is a common trick they do. Pelosi even pulled it for the first Covid bill with checks. Nothing like delaying the Covid support money for an extra week or week and a half, just to get a news cycle or two of "Republicans are blocking the Covid bill", which Democrats blocked, copied, and submitted as their own already. Pelosi's political trick delayed money to hospitals and other critical Covid response and her dirty political trick can likely be measured by how many deaths of Americans it caused.