In the end, the final vote didn’t provide any drama or any surprises. The drama may come now that the House Republicans’ continuing resolution goes to the Senate. Democrats now have to decide whether their perfomative antics will include shutting down the same bureaucracies Donald Trump wants to eliminate.
Yesterday evening, the vote to pass the CR went smoothly for Speaker Mike Johnson, notching yet another win in a historically narrow majority:
The mostly party-line 217-213 vote came after an intensive lobbying campaign by President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other top administration officials to win over a handful of GOP holdouts. With current funding set to expire Friday night, lawmakers have little time to pass a funding extension in both chambers and get it to the president’s desk for his signature without a brief partial…
