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House Speaker Mike Johnson outlined next steps to avert a government shutdown in a letter to his members on Sunday.

Johnson’s plan, known as the Limited Continuing Resolution, would provide funding to the government through December 20 and provide $230 million to fund the Secret Service.

“Next week, the House will take the initiative and pass a clean, three-month CR to prevent the Senate from overwhelming us with a bill full of billions in new spending and unrelated provisions,” the Louisiana Republican wrote in his letter. “Our legislation will be a very narrow, stripped-down CR containing only the absolutely necessary expansions. While this is not the solution we all prefer, it is the most sensible path forward under the current circumstances.”

Government funding runs out at the end of the month and Johnson said in his letter on Sunday that he did not want a shutdown to occur weeks before the election.

“As history teaches and recent polls confirm, shutting down the government less than 40 days before a fateful election would be an act of political malpractice,” he said. “From now until Election Day, I will continue my tireless efforts and focus exclusively on increasing our majority for the 119th Congress.”

Leading Democrats in Congress, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, praised the bipartisan negotiations that led to a funding agreement “without cuts and poison pills” and signaled rapid passage of the interim legislation before the deadline.

“If both sides continue to work together in good faith, I am confident we can complete work on the CR this week, well before the September 30 deadline. The key to completing our work this week will be bipartisan cooperation in both chambers,” Schumer said in a statement on Sunday.

Jeffries indicated that House Democrats will review the budget bill when they return to Washington on Monday evening, but praised the negotiated bill for being “free of partisan, right-wing policy changes.”

Johnson’s bill comes after the House on Wednesday failed to pass a six-month Republican government funding plan that included a controversial measure targeting noncitizens’ voting rights. That plan was pushed by Donald Trump. The former president had called for a government shutdown if lawmakers cannot pass the voting rights measure, known as the SAVE Act.

Johnson said Friday he believes Trump understands that House Republicans do not have enough votes to pass the SAVE Act, a Republican-led bill that passed the House in July. The law would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, even though it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.

This story has been updated with additional information.

CNN’s Morgan Rimmer contributed to this report.