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Following the vote, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. touted the passage of the government funding extension as a win for Democrats.Without Democratic help, the bill would not have ...
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the passage of the government funding bill "a victory" for the American people during remarks after the vote. "House Democrats have successfully ...
House Republicans pushed back on outrage over the funding being cut from the package, arguing that Senate Democrats were to blame for waiting months to bring up the bill. The House had passed the ...
On November 15, 19 Freedom Caucus members joined with Democrats to block a rule vote on a bill funding the Justice Department. [39] In December 2023, Jeffries and the House Democratic Caucus provided the majority of the votes, 163-147, to pass the National Defense Authorization Act, allowing it to pass under suspension of the rules. The bill ...
In the House, 218 votes are needed to pass a bill; if 200 Democrats are the minority and 235 Republicans are the majority, the Hastert rule would not allow 200 Democrats and 100 Republicans together to pass a bill, because 100 Republican votes is short of a majority of the majority party, so the speaker would not allow a vote to take place. [4]
Democrats and Republicans are already prepared to throw each other under the bus if Congress can't pass the latest government funding proposal – or if a shutdown ultimately sets in this weekend.
The House vote was 341 to 82 with 132 Republicans and 209 Democrats voting in favor and 82 Republicans voting against. While more Democrats than Republicans voted to pass the bill, Johnson did ...
The bill also dropped key concessions Johnson’s original stopgap bill made to Democrats, including a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., a reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards ...