House leadership delays vote on stopgap government funding bill amid GOP opposition
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Washington — Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that the House would not proceed with a planned vote on a stopgap measure to keep the government funded past the end of the month, in an acknowledgment of opposition from members of his own party that likely would have doomed the bill to fail.
"No vote today because we're in the consensus-building business," Johnson told reporters.
Lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill from their August recess on Monday and have until the end of the month to fund the government, making a short-term measure necessary to avert a government shutdown. House Republican leadership unveiled their opening salvo in the funding fight in recent days with a plan to push for a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through March 28, while attaching a noncitizen voting bill that Democrats generally see as a nonstarter.
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