House Speaker Kevin McCarthy went back to the drawing board after a large faction of his Republicans shot down a stopgap spending bill, saying he would try again on Saturday just hours before the shutdown deadline.
The speaker’s team planned to work through the night to sway the 21 conservative lawmakers who voted no and defeated the temporary spending bill, despite sweeteners such as spending cuts and border security measures.
A sticking point for Democrats is that temporary funding must include more aid for the Ukraine war effort. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida led the contingent of conservatives, many of them Freedom Caucus members, who killed the bill on Friday. Many of these lawmakers have vowed to never vote for short-term spending legislation, insisting that Congress instead pass spending bills one by one.
The effort had gained some early momentum with holdouts such as Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado warming to the idea. Some lawmakers said that as many as 12 of the holdouts had softened their opposition to a stopgap bill. Members of the House Freedom Caucus demanded that leadership give some kind of schedule for spending bills, and Mr. McCarthy relented.
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