House scuttles Johnson's government funding plan with days to go until shutdown
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday scuttled House Speaker Mike Johnson's partisan plan to temporarily fund the government, paired with a proposal aimed at curbing noncitizen voting, with less than two weeks left to avert a government shutdown. The measure failed in a 202-220 vote, with more than a dozen Republicans joining Democrats to oppose the measure. Two Republican lawmakers, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. , and Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
, voted "present," and three Democrats, Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, Don Davis, D-N. C. , and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash. , broke ranks to support it.
The path forward to avert a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1 is unclear. Johnson told reporters at the Capitol after the vote Wednesday that he was "very disappointed" the bill didn't pass, and implied he'd huddle with lawmakers to figure out an alternative plan, but did not provide details on what that might look like. "The play that we ran tonight was the right play," Johnson said. "It’s the right fight for the American people, it's the one that they demand and deserve ...
Now we go back to the playbook, draw up another play.