{"id":1490903,"date":"2024-09-19T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1490903"},"modified":"2024-09-19T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T22:00:00","slug":"house-fails-to-pass-gop-stopgap-funding-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/house-fails-to-pass-gop-stopgap-funding-plan\/1490903\/","title":{"rendered":"House Fails To Pass GOP Stopgap Funding Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Fails To Pass GOP Stopgap Funding Plan<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Joseph Lord, Stacy Robinson and Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

The House on Sept. 18 failed to pass a temporary spending fix that would have forestalled a government shutdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The GOP measure, which would have extended the government funding deadline by six months, was rejected by the House in a 202\u2013220 vote, including 14 Republicans who voted against it. Three Democrats supported the bill. Two members voted \u201cpresent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) heads to his office before the vote on the government funding bill at the U.S. Capitol on September 18, 2024. Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Aside from punting the funding deadline from Sept. 30 to March 2025, a measure known as a continuing resolution, the bill included the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would have required proof of citizenship to register to vote.<\/p>\n

Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the plan and have called instead for a three-month stopgap bill with no policy riders, known as a \u201cclean\u201d continuing resolution.<\/strong> They rejected the SAVE Act, arguing it\u2019s an unnecessary measure because existing laws already bar noncitizens from voting.<\/p>\n

Republican objections to the spending plan came from various camps. Some Republicans object to the use of continuing resolutions; others believe that the spending figures were too high; and some say a six-month stopgap would leave the military underfunded for too long.<\/p>\n

With the bill\u2019s failure, House Republican leaders will go back to the drawing board with 12 days left until government funding runs dry. Several Republican members told The Epoch Times that they believe that leadership will ultimately adopt a clean continuing resolution with Democrats\u2019 help.<\/p>\n

No Republican Consensus<\/h2>\n

The vote on the legislation was originally slated for last week, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) pulled it from the floor early on Sept. 11 after opposition from Republicans and Democrats alike. He said then that the bill was still in the \u201cconsensus-building\u201d phase.<\/p>\n

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has expressed opposition to continuing resolutions on principle, saying he wants Congress to pass the required 12 funding bills individually, rather than wrapping them into continuing resolutions or massive end-of-year omnibus spending bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether Democrats are in control or Republicans are in control, we never do the 12 separate bills,<\/strong>\u201d he said, referring to the dispute as \u201cpolitical theater.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although the inclusion of the SAVE Act was designed to make the measure more palatable to Republicans who would otherwise oppose it, many were critical of the move, describing it as a \u201cshow vote\u201d that has no chance to either become law or be implemented before Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s changed over the weekend to think that you put this on the floor tomorrow, it\u2019s going to pass,<\/strong>\u201d Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) told The Epoch Times the night before the vote.<\/p>\n

Still, Nehls said there was some value in forcing Democrats to go on the record with a vote on the issue.<\/p>\n

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) told reporters ahead of the vote that he planned to support the legislation, arguing that it would be better to deal with funding under a new president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI firmly believe that you cannot find that compromise with this current White House. It should be left to the next president of the United States,\u201d Donalds said.<\/p>\n

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the House has allocated more money for the Department of Veterans Affairs than what the Biden administration requested.<\/p>\n

Cole said that the SAVE Act is crucial given the crisis at the southern border.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m extraordinarily perplexed that the idea of reaffirming in a time of unmitigated disaster at the southern border that you\u2019ve got to be an American citizen to vote in an election is somehow controversial,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Democrats Promised to Kill the Bill<\/h2>\n

Ahead of the vote, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, noted that it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill is an admission that the House Republican majority cannot govern<\/strong>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

DeLauro went on to claim that the bill \u201cabandons our military, our Social Security recipients, and our cities and families who are grappling with disasters and no disaster relief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if the bill had passed the House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had indicated that he wouldn\u2019t bring it to a vote in the upper chamber. Schumer described the SAVE Act as a \u201cpoison pill.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats support a [continuing resolution] to keep the government open. As I have said before, the only way to get things done is in a bipartisan way,\u201d he wrote in a \u201cDear Colleague\u201d letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden had also promised<\/a> to veto the bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The failure of the legislation brings leaders back to square one on funding the government. Of the 12 appropriations bills that need to be passed each year, the House has passed five, but none of these have been taken up in the Senate because of the inclusion of controversial culture war provisions.<\/p>\n

The Senate has passed no funding bills to date.<\/p>\n

Historically, when government funding comes due in September, lawmakers have punted the issue until the end of December before passing 1,000-plus page omnibus spending legislation with the support of most Democrats and some Republicans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 09\/19\/2024 – 14:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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