{"id":7162,"date":"2025-03-11T18:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-one-step-closer-to-passing-stopgap-funding-bill\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:33:52","slug":"house-gop-one-step-closer-to-passing-stopgap-funding-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-one-step-closer-to-passing-stopgap-funding-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP one step closer to passing stopgap funding bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The House GOP\u2019s seven-month stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown is one step closer to passage.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans stayed mostly united on a test vote on the measure Tuesday afternoon, paving the way for a vote on final passage later in the day \u2014 just three days before the deadline to prevent a lapse in federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>The 216-214 vote bodes well for Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/242539\" data-person-id=\"242539\">Mike Johnson<\/a>, who can\u2019t, in his razor-thin majority, afford more than a couple GOP defections on a bill that isn\u2019t expected to garner much, if any, Democratic support.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/198835\" data-person-id=\"198835\">Thomas Massie<\/a> (R-Ky.) has pledged to oppose the bill to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year \u2014 while slashing non-defense funding by roughly $13 billion and increasing defense spending by about $6 billion. The fiscal conservative has never supported a continuing resolution, otherwise known as a CR, and joined all Democrats in opposing the procedural rule governing floor consideration of the measure.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump, who is heavily supportive of the funding package, has railed against Massie for stepping out of line, leveraging threats of backing a primary challenge against the incumbent lawmaker that could have a chilling effect on other Republicans, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House GOP\u2019s seven-month stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown is one step closer to passage. Republicans stayed mostly united on a test vote on the measure Tuesday afternoon, paving the way for a vote on final passage later in the day \u2014 just three days before the deadline to prevent a lapse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}