Hours after House Republican leaders announced a “deal” on a stopgap spending bill, Democrats and Republicans proved on the House floor that more lawmakers disapprove of the new legislation than support it.
The House voted 174-235 on the continuing resolution, with two Democrats and 172 Republicans voting yes, and 197 Democrats and 38 Republicans voting no. One Democrat, Marcy Kaptur, voted present.
More troublingly for Speaker Mike Johnson, the threshold for this vote was a two-thirds majority, meaning Republicans needed an additional 100 votes to pass the bill. In short, the bill went down in flames.