Maine Rep. Jared Golden, the lone Democrat who voted for the GOP-led continuing resolution, said he did so to avoid a government shutdown. 

"This CR is not perfect, but a shutdown would be worse," Golden wrote in a thread on X on Tuesday, after the vote. "Even a brief shutdown would introduce even more chaos and uncertainty at a time when our country can ill-afford it."

The stopgaps spending measure funds the federal government until September.

In the 217-213 vote, GOP Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie was the only House Republican to vote against the measure.

The continuing resolution now has to be passed by the Senate to keep the government from temporarily shutting down Friday.

Golden said that the bill had some good things in it such as pay raises for members of the Armed Services and increased funding for disaster relief.

"To be clear, this CR is not the one I would have written," Golden wrote. "But elections have consequences."