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Conservative lawmakers are promising revenge against House GOP leaders and their rank-and-file colleagues after they were sidelined for a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown this week.<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives passed a short-term government spending bill known as a continuing resolution (CR) on Thursday to extend last year\u2019s federal funding through early March, in order to give congressional negotiators enough time to set priorities for fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n

With dozens of Republicans having come out against another CR already and just a thin two-seat majority, House leaders bypassed a normally partisan procedural vote to bring the bill up under suspension of the rules, meaning it needed a two-thirds majority for passage.<\/p>\n

\u2018Once again, we passed a significant piece of legislation that keeps in place, with predominately Democrat votes, policies that were ran against and campaigned against,\u2019 House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va., told Fox News Digital after the vote.<\/p>\n

\u2018If you don\u2019t need our votes for the significant pieces of legislation that impact the country, that fund the government, and you\u2019re going to pass those with Democrat votes on suspension, then you shouldn\u2019t presume that you\u2019ve got our votes for the meaningless messaging bills that are dead on arrival in the Senate.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hours before the vote, Good made a last-ditch appeal to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to put the bill through the House Rules Committee, so it could be attached to a border security bill \u2014 called H.R.2 \u2014 that\u2019s backed by most Republicans but was called a nonstarter by Democrats.<\/p>\n

The standoff would have almost certainly led to a government shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u2018If they don\u2019t want to shut down the border, then it\u2019s on them to shut down the government\u2026 the discussion is that if the speaker isn\u2019t going to take some of those reasonable, conservative asks, then why are we going to continue this charade?\u2019 Freedom Caucus member Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., said.<\/p>\n

\u2018We need to discuss it as a whole, but the idea is\u2026 hold up bills until they decide that H.R.2 is the priority.\u2019<\/p>\n

GOP hardliners have weaponized the normally sleepy procedural votes that most bills go through, known as rule votes, several times during the 118th Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rule votes normally fall along partisan lines, with even lawmakers who object to the bill itself voting with their party to pass the rule. Prior to last year, one had not failed since 2002.<\/p>\n

But they have been used more recently as a vehicle for House Republicans among Johnson\u2019s right flank to protest House leadership decisions, usually with rule votes linked to bills that toe the GOP party line.<\/p>\n

It has prompted speculation over whether House GOP leaders intend to pass their fiscal 2024 spending bills under suspension of the rules, further sidelining their rebellious faction.<\/p>\n

\u2018I hope he doesn\u2019t. He doesn\u2019t need to do that. I mean, his base is conservatives and Speaker Johnson is a conservative,\u2019 Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said. \u2018But I don\u2019t like the suspension. I don\u2019t like using Democrats to pass bills.\u2019<\/p>\n

Asked whether he and other hardliners could stage more protest votes down the line in response, Norman said the Freedom Caucus would \u2018discuss that.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018We urged Mike to put an amendment that ties H.R.2 minus e-Verify and let us vote on it,\u2019 Norman said. \u2018And he didn\u2019t want to do that.\u2019<\/p>\n

Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., another Freedom Caucus member, refused to say whether she would sink rule votes in exchange for the CR\u2019s package.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked whether Johnson would face consequences, however, she said, \u2018There\u2019s always repercussions to everything we do. But the biggest thing to focus on is that the border is open. It is a disaster. It\u2019s hard to come up with the adequate terms to describe how ruinous it is to our country, and to future generations. The impact is incalculable.\u2019<\/p>\n

The new CR passed the House on Thursday evening 314 to 108. It nearly split the GOP in half, with 107 voting for it and 106 against.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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