The House on Wednesday passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown just ahead of the November elections, punting a bigger funding fight to the end of the year.

Speaker Mike Johnson again turned to Democrats to supply the bulk of the votes to keep federal funding flowing through Dec. 20, after conservatives in his own conference said they would not support the legislation because it would not cut spending and did not include a measure imposing new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voter registration.

The vote was 341 to 82, with a majority of the Republican conference voting in favor of the legislation. Mr. Johnson had brought the legislation to a vote using a special procedure to pass the bill that requires the support of two-thirds of those voting in an effort to circumvent any attempt by hard-liners to block consideration of the measure.

All Democrats present voted in support of the legislation.

“Governance by continuing resolution is not ideal,” Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma and the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said. “Like most, my preference would be to pass full-year individual appropriations bills through regular work. We are out of time. We cannot afford a shutdown which would be greatly damaging to our national security, to critical government programs and to the American people.”