WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday yanked a government funding bill off the House floor hours before an expected vote after a growing number of disgruntled Republicans vowed to tank the measure. Following former President Donald Trump’s lead, Johnson, R-La., had tied a six-month funding bill to the SAVE Act, which would overhaul voting
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Speaker Johnson’s government funding strategy is on life support as defections mount
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson’s strategy to tie a short-term government funding bill to a Donald Trump-backed proposal to overhaul voting laws was on life support Monday after a band of conservative rebels vowed to vote no on the package. Without a stopgap funding bill, money will run out and the federal government will
Speaker Johnson: “No one should worry” about shutdown
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) dismissed questions about whether a government shutdown could be on the horizon, even as a dispute with Democrats brews over his support for a crackdown on non-citizen voting. Why it matters: Some moderate Republicans seeking re-election in districts President Biden won in 2020 have expressed concern that they could pay