A test vote to advance the latest bill failed in a 216-212 vote.
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy emerged with a spending cut plan to prevent a federal government shutdown by appeasing his hard-right flank, only to see it quickly collapse Thursday in a crushing defeat.His latest attempt to move ahead with a traditionally popular defense funding bill was shattered by a core group of Republican colleagues who refused to vote for the endangered speaker’s plans.
A test vote to advance the bill failed, 212-216, as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to stop it.A federal government shutdown is looming Sept. 30, which marks the end of the current budget year, if Congress cannot pass the bills needed to fund the government. Context: Kevin McCarthy’s near-impossible task: to get Republicans on the same page and fund the government for another month
Also see: ‘He’s being squeezed’: McCarthy yields to right-flank insistence on Biden impeachment inquiry amid intensifying threat to speakership McCarthy’s strategy of repeatedly giving in to the hard-right conservatives is seemingly only emboldening them as a handful of GOP lawmakers, urged on by Donald Trump, the party’s early frontrunner for the 2024 presidential nomination, run roughshod over their own House majority.
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