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#House votes to reject #GOP bill to avert #GovernmentShutdown
The House on Wed rejected Speaker #MikeJohnson’s plan to fund the govt for 6 months, cranking up tensions around a fast-approaching #government #shutdown deadline not only throughout #Congress but also w/in #Republicans’ House majority.
14 #Republicans joined w/ #Democrats [sick of doing the GOP’s work for them & who objected to racist additions to the bill] to block it.
#law #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/18/house-bill-government-shutdown-funding/
#MikeJohnson’s bill, which combined a 6-month extension of federal funds at current spending levels w/a measure the #House already passed requiring proof of #citizenship to register to #vote in national #elections. The Democratic-controlled #Senate & the White House oppose the House bill, because of the length of the extension & because of the registration provisions.
#Funding for the federal #government expires Sept 30, & w/o an extension, most federal govt operations would shut down Oct 1 as millions of #Americans begin early #voting in Nov’s #election.
Wed’s result—a 220-202 vote w/2 voting present—was hardly in doubt. #GOP lawmakers from across the ideological spectrum had said publicly for more than a week that they opposed the #legislation. But #MikeJohnson has insisted there is “no Plan B” to prevent a #shutdown if the bill fails. .
#Republican leaders knew they had probably set up the vote to #fail. 2 people familiar w/ #MikeJohnson’s thinking said #Republicans are expected to blame #Democrats [who do NOT control the #House, so good luck w/that] & the handful of #GOP colleagues who tanked their bill as the reason Johnson must now pivot & begin negotiations [beggar] w/a #Democratic-led #Senate.
#law #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown #Republicans
#Trump may have thrown off those plans w/a Wednesday afternoon social media post 
demanding that #Republicans include the #voting registration bill…in a #funding package, or force a #GovernmentShutdown.
“BE SMART, REPUBLICANS, YOU’VE BEEN PUSHED AROUND LONG ENOUGH BY THE DEMOCRATS. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN,” the idiot wrote.
#Democrats are expected to propose a 3-month extension of current #funding, known as a continuing resolution or #CR, which #pragmatic #Republicans unwilling to #shutdown the #government support.
#Defense hawks had voiced worries that a 6-month spending bill would hamstring #NationalSecurity spending, preferring a shorter extension that would give #Congress more time to agree on new spending levels for the rest of the fiscal year.
#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #HouseRepublicans
Deficit-minded #Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures.
And #HouseRepublicans’ personal rivalries surfaced again in a callback to the #funding debacle that a year ago ousted #MikeJohnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy, from the speakership.
@Nonilex 
Perhaps, Nonilex, we can look forward to House Republicans giving Preacher Mike Johnson the Kevin McCarthy treatment.