House Republicans are expected to vote on a stopgap spending bill that House Speaker Mike Johnson is backing sometime this week.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., unveiled a plan to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of this month during a lawmaker-only phone call Wednesday morning. Johnson is aiming to hold a vote on the measure as soon as possible, likely next week, two sources familiar with the call told Fox News Digital.
Five Democrats voted for the SAVE Act when it passed the House in July, but their leaders are largely opposed to the measure and have panned it as unnecessary since it is already illegal to vote in federal elections as a noncitizen. Meanwhile, senior Republican lawmakers had called for a short-term funding extension into December rather than risking a traffic jam of legislative deadlines in the new year.
If it passes the House, the plan is highly unlikely to be taken up by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, however. Schumer, D-N.Y., told Fox News Digital of the plan, 'As we have said each time we’ve had a CR, the only way to get things done is in a bipartisan way and that is what has happened every time.' A spokesperson for Rep.
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