The House voted 370-48 on Tuesday to kick the government funding can down the road to December, passing a clean continuing resolution with zero spending cuts while working Americans keep footing the bill.

The bipartisan blowout proves what populists have long suspected: when it comes to spending your money, Washington's two parties agree far more than they disagree. The stopgap measure funds federal agencies at current levels through Dec. 11, past the midterm elections, so incumbents in both parties can campaign without defending a shutdown. Nobody's cutting anything. The taxpayer just keeps paying.

The Senate already approved the measure, so it heads to President Trump's desk. Twenty-nine Democrats and 19 Republicans voted against it — a combined 48 dissenters out of the full chamber. That's not a partisan split. That's the establishment versus everyone else.

House Speaker Mike Johnson called it avoiding "another Democratic shutdown" and credited Republican leadership for doing "the grown-up thing," according to WJLA. Rep. Tom Cole, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the bill provides "certainty that the government will remain open, certainty that our service members will be paid."

Certainty for the government. None for the taxpayer watching the national debt clock spin.

Democrats extracted their own concessions before signing on. The Senate version blocks the Department of Homeland Security from transferring funds to Border Patrol and delays a proposed rule that would give Trump administration political appointees more authority to steer federal grants away from programs they oppose. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the lead Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, called the delay "an important first step" and warned that "whether a community receives disaster relief should not depend on who they voted for."

So both sides got something — except the American people, who got the same spending trajectory and no structural reform.

This Congress already holds the record for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Last fall, a 43-day shutdown came when the parties clashed over Affordable Care Act tax credits. Then came a 76-day Homeland Security shutdown, after which lawmakers funded most of the department but not its immigration enforcement operations. Now, with midterms looming, neither party wanted a repeat. The Philadelphia Inquirer and KABC-TV framed the bill as a move to "avoid a chaotic shutdown as lawmakers campaign for reelection." That's honest enough: the real constituency here is incumbency.

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., acknowledged the dysfunction outright, according to UPI. "Republicans who control the House, the Senate and the White House are basically waving the white flag and saying, 'We don't know how to govern, we don't know how to pass appropriations bills,'" Lieu said — before announcing he'd vote for the measure anyway.

WJLA buried the most important detail at the bottom of its report: Republicans are seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in additional military spending while cutting non-defense programs. Democrats call that a non-starter and demand parity for domestic programs. That fight is coming in December, after the election, when voters can no longer hold anyone accountable for the outcome.

That's the play. Pass a clean CR now. Fight over hundreds of billions later — when the ballots are already counted and the public has moved on. Both parties expand government on their preferred fronts. Neither shrinks it. And the bill always arrives at the same address: the working American's doorstep.

The real question isn't whether Washington will keep spending. It's whether anyone in either party will ever be forced to stop.