Speaker Mike Johnson‘s short-gap funding bill stunningly failed on the House floor on Wednesday after GOP chaos.
The speaker paired short-gap funding through March 2025 with the SAVE Act – a bill that would crack down on noncitizen voting in the upcoming election by requiring proof of citizenship.
But all Democrats voted against it and GOP hardliners crossed party lines to tank the measure, called a Continuing Resolution (CR), they said isn’t fiscally conservative enough.
And the pressure is on as just 13 days remain before government funding runs out, halting funding to critical agencies.
Ex-President Donald Trump has inserted himself in the middle of the showdown, encouraging a government shutdown if the SAVE Act is not apart of the package.
‘President Trump and I have talked a lot about this. We talked a lot about it with our colleagues who are building consensus on the plan,’ he told reporters Wednesday without revealing if there is a Plan B when the bill tanks.
Johnson is now facing pressure to work with Democrats to pass a ‘clean’ CR without the SAVE Act to fund the government through the election, angering Trump – or else risk getting the blame for a pre-election.
Trump urges GOP to shut down the government as funding bill fails (msn.com)