The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to advance a short-term government funding extension. The bill now goes to President Biden\u2019s desk, where he will have to sign it before the end of the day on Friday to avert a partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n
It passed 314 to 108 and nearly split the House GOP in half \u2014 107 Republicans voted for its passage, while 106 opposed.<\/p>\n
House leaders rushed to put the bill, called a continuing resolution (CR), on the floor Thursday afternoon soon after the Senate passed it 77 to 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was brought for a vote under a suspension of the rules, meaning it forgoes a procedural vote but then needs two-thirds of House lawmakers\u2019 support for final passage, rather than just a simple majority.<\/p>\n
The decision was made amid widespread frustration within Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s right flank over the passage of another CR. Johnson, R-La., previously vowed to be \u2018done\u2019 with CRs after passing one in November, but congressional leaders have agreed it\u2019s needed to give lawmakers more time to cobble together a spending deal for fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n
Hours before the vote, House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good, R-Va., met with Johnson to persuade him to add a border security amendment to the CR.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Good told reporters Johnson was \u2018considering it,\u2019 arguing, \u2018The Senate will be forced to consider, are they willing to fund the government and secure the border, or they refuse to fund the government because they don\u2019t want to secure the border.\u2019<\/p>\n
But Johnson immediately put the rumors to rest. His spokesman, Raj Shah, posted on X minutes after Good spoke to reporters, \u2018The plan has not changed. The House is voting on the stop gap measure tonight to keep the government open.\u2019<\/p>\n
The new CR would preserve Johnson\u2019s \u2018laddered\u2019 approach by keeping the two separate funding deadlines intact, extending them from Jan. 19 and Feb. 2 to March 1 and March 8, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Johnson previously said that it\u2019s aimed at preventing Congress from passing an all-in-one \u2018omnibus\u2019 spending bill, something Republicans in the House and Senate oppose.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Good and other members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus complained about the CR earlier this week but acknowledged there was little they could do to stop it from passing, given its support from House Democrats and a significant share of House Republicans.<\/p>\n
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital he was \u2018an optimist\u2019 but conceded that there was likely little that conservatives could do to stop the CR from passing.<\/p>\n
\u2018I guess if he puts it on suspension, a lot of Democrats vote for it, maybe that\u2019s a correct statement. But it\u2019s certainly not something I\u2019m going to vote for,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n\n
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