Johnson Pares Down GOP Funding Bill in Desperate Bid to Avoid Shutdown

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House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a new bill to avert a government shutdown—less than a week after defections in his own party defeated the speaker’s attempt to pass a spending bill paired with extra legislation prohibiting non-citizens from voting.

The new spending bill will be “a very narrow, bare-bones CR including only the extensions that are absolutely necessary,” Johnson said in a letter to colleagues on Sunday. The House has until Sept. 30 to fund the government before facing a shutdown.

Johnson previously tried to pass a spending bill with the SAVE Act attached—a Trump-endorsed bill that would ban states from registering non-citizens as voters. Fourteen Republicans joined Democrats to defeat the bill last week.

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