The House easily passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s stopgap spending measure that would continue to fund the government into the new year with broad bipartisan support Tuesday afternoon.
Johnson’s continuing resolution faced serious opposition from members of the House Freedom Caucus and their allies, and 93 Republicans ended up voting against the bill. But all but two Democrats backed it, pushing the final tally to 336-95 and meeting the two-thirds standard needed to pass bills under suspension of the rules.
Reps. Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts and Mike Quigley of Illinois, who have sought more funding for Ukraine that is not part of the stopgap measure, were the lone Democratic dissenters. “I cannot support a short-term spending measure, cobbled together as the GOP careens from crisis to crisis, that fails to defend democracy,” Auchincloss said in a statement.
