Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to muscle through a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, but he doesn’t have the votes locked down yet.
President Donald Trump is pressing the small group of GOP holdouts to fall in line ahead of the Friday shutdown deadline, and House Democratic leaders are whipping all their members to vote against the bill that would fund the government through September.
“I don’t think House Republicans should expect any Democratic votes to get them over the line,” said one person familiar with ongoing conversations among moderate House Democrats, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly.
If only Republicans vote for the stopgap bill — known as a continuing resolution or a CR — and there’s full attendance, Johnson can’t afford to lose more than one GOP lawmaker. The speaker predicted Monday afternoon that “the CR will pass,” citing that “no one wants to shut the government down.”
The hard no: Rep. Thomas Massie is the only House Republican who has definitively said he will not vote to pass the stopgap spending bill — and stuck to it.
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