16 GOP Reps Help Kill Johnson’s Bill To Avert Shutdown

NBC News reports:

House Republicans on Wednesday defeated their own plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month, with the party divided over the length of a short-term funding bill and what, if anything, should be attached to it.

It was an embarrassing blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who had yanked the same funding package off the floor last week amid growing GOP defections, only to watch it collapse on Wednesday in a vote that seemed doomed from the start.

The vote was 202-220 with two members voting present. In all, fourteen Republicans voted against the package and three Democrats voted for it.

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The 6 month CR + SAVE Act has failed 202 – 220.

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