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Johnson unveiled his plan to fund the government last week, proposing to extend current spending levels until late March but only if lawmakers attach thethat would require proof of citizenship for voter registration. Although that caveat was made to appease some of his most hardline members, the proposal has been met with opposition from those very same Republicans — putting its future in peril.
“I am in this to win this,” Johnson told reporters. “I think it’s something we must do. That’s why it’s worth fighting for. I’m not going to engage in conjecture and try to game out all the outcomes. I think this is something that we should do, and that’s what we’re doing.” Even if the continuing resolution did make it through the House, the SAVE Act is likely dead on arrival in the Democratic-led Senate. In fact, some Republicans predict sending a CR-SAVE Act combination to the upper chamber would only result in the return of a clean extension of funding levels without any policy riders.“I refuse to be a thespian in the Speaker’s failure theater,” Rep. Thomas Massie , one of the first Republicans to come out against the plan, said in a post on X.
At the time, McCarthy proposed attaching Republicans’ signature border bill, H.R. 2, to a continuing resolution as a way to buy more time for spending negotiations while also notching a GOP policy win. However, similar to Johnson’s fate, a number of House Republicans opposed that proposal, causing it to fail when it was brought to the floor for a vote.
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