The vote served as a major blow to McCarthy and poured cold water on the notion that Congress could avert a shutdown before Saturday.
The short-term spending plan would have kept the government open for 30 more days while imposing sweeping 30 percent cuts across hundreds of federal programs, crippling everything from federal safety net programs to NASA.
McCarthy’s misfortune may turn into a win for the bipartisan Senate plan advanced earlier this week which would avoid such cuts and also include funding for Ukraine to the ire of far-right Republicans.
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