A coalition of Republican hardliners aligned with House Democrats to vote down a stopgap funding bill on Friday, significantly increasing the chances of a government shutdown.
Twenty-one Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the legislation, including Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) among others.
The final vote was 198-232. The measure advanced in a party-line vote earlier on Friday.
The bill did not stand a chance in the Senate, where Democrats were sure to line up against it. And the White House Friday morning issued a veto threat for the bill.
The bill’s failure increases the odds of a government shutdown, which will go into effect Saturday night unless Congress passes a short-term funding bill by then.
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A short-term funding extension, known as a continuing resolution (CR), is almost certainly needed to give lawmakers more time to cobble together 12 individual spending bills for fiscal year 2024.
But Republican leaders have had a hard time so far corralling their conference into some kind of agreement. A faction of conservatives have for weeks said they are opposed to any CR, arguing it would be an extension of the previous Democratically-controlled Congress.
The House GOP’s CR proposal included an amendment to slash spending for its month-long duration to fiscal 2022 levels, about $130 billion less than the current year’s. It also featured elements from House Republicans’ border security bill, and McCarthy said a new provision would mandate the creation of a bipartisan committee to study the federal debt.
The move is also a significant blow to McCarthy whose leadership has faced public threats throughout the spending battle.
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That small group of Republicans is desparately trying to stand out in the crowd, unfortunately at the expense of the American people. Remember their names at election time, and boot them out of office.
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