Stopgap in a sentence

All four members of the delegation voted in favor of the stopgap spending measure to avoid shutting down the government.

But many in Eudora — including those who believe the curfew is urgently necessary — see it as a desperate, stopgap measure that will not undo any of the decline and disinvestment at the root of the community’s struggles.

But there was still one last stopgap.

Far-right Republicans on Friday voted down a GOP House bill that would have provided a temporary stopgap against the looming government shutdown that now would appear to be almost certain to occur this weekend.

He did so before what is described as a high-stakes House vote occurred on a stopgap measure to temporarily keep the federal government funded, avoiding a shutdown.

Indeed, it was just a few days ago when the Senate bipartisan leadership — Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — unveiled a compromise stopgap bill that would’ve addressed most of the aforementioned list.

It’s worth noting that in the House, only two South Carolina representatives – Democrat James Clyburn and Republican Joe Wilson – voted in favor of the stopgap.

McCarthy faces challenges in passing a stopgap funding bill, as it appears he lacks the votes to keep the government open beyond September 30th.

Middle East Eye reported that the countries are nearing a stopgap agreement in which Tehran would curb uranium enrichment in exchange for Washington easing some sanctions.

Nov. 11 (UPI) -- House Republicans unveiled a stopgap spending plan Saturday to avert a government shutdown in a week.

Renewable energy sources have been acceptable stopgap solutions, however, they’re unreliable and energy dilute, making them insufficient strategies or replacements for fossil fuels in the long run, NT-Tao said.

Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., the co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, protested funding for Ukraine dropped from the stopgap funding bill the House passed on Saturday.

They accused McCarthy of a flip-flop, saying he’d promised an end to hastily prepared stopgap legislation, hammered out with the support of the opposition, and a return to budgeting through the committee process.

This is about replacing a stopgap measure the legislature passed in 2021 after the state Supreme Court struck down Washington’s felony drug possession statute in a case called State v. Blake.

We will put a clean funding stopgap on the floor to keep government open for 45 days for the House and Senate to get their work done,” McCarthy also said.

Yet all the so-called fixes, statutory and administrative, treat federal retirees as long gone, or at best, a stopgap, temporary measure, rather than a permanent option.

After passing one such extension in November, Johnson had said they were finished with them, but when pressed by Collins, he refused to rule out the possibility of more stopgap resolutions.

As it stands, ChatGPT integration is a stopgap for when Apple makes Siri better in 2025.

At the beginning of the war, Ukraine resorted to having the central bank print new money, a dangerous stopgap because it can fuel inflation and destroy the value of the country's hryvnia currency.

If Starmer ends up a mere stopgap who fails to arrest the populist tide, the longer-term prospects for the U.K. will be especially bleak.