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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate on Friday, but stopped short of calling for an immediate vote, after expressing her frustration with Speaker Mike Johnson for bringing a $1.2 trillion government funding bill to the House floor.
The bill, which is over 1,000 pages, funds numerous departments, including Homeland Security, the Department of Defense and Health and Human Services. The House ended up passing the bill by a vote of 286 to 134. It still needs to pass in the Senate to avoid a partial government shutdown. With passage of the bill in the House, Johnson faces a similar fate as former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Rep. Matt Gaetz filed a motion to vacate last year after McCarthy agreed to a temporary bipartisan spending bill that kept the government open. Gaetz, like Greene, was upset about funding levels and where the money was being allocated.
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