House Speaker Mike Johnson has deferred the vote on a bill to fund the government through March.
The temporary government-funding mechanism, called a continuing resolution, would have included the SAVE Act, an election-integrity measure meant to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections.
Johnson has pulled the bill until next week in hopes of building “consensus” around his plan to avoid a government shutdown and force Democrats to vote against protecting American elections from illegal immigrant votes.
“We are going to continue to work on this. The whip is going to do the hard work to build consensus and work on the weekend on that,” Johnson claimed. The speaker added the Republican conference will have more “family conversations” about it.
The reason Johnson was forced to pull the bill was because of a growing number of GOP holdouts….
