Twelve House Democrats voted against the GOP-backed spending bill Tuesday afternoon, providing funding to the government until the end of September.
StopGap Government Funding Bill I passed House of Representatives 217-213. House Democrats’ decision (CR) to oppose a six-month extension of government funds known as the Continuing Resolution (CR) comes after many Democrats before I warned On the risk of shutting down governments during previous government funding fights. (Related: The deep, unpopular California DEM begins bidding to replace Newsom)
Maine Rep. Jared Golden, the only House Democrat and Maine, voted with House Republicans to avoid a government shutdown that is due in the middle of the night on Friday. Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massey was the only GOP lawmaker to oppose CR.
Trump and House Republicans have vowed to incorporate Doge Cuts into their 2026 appropriation budget process. In two posts on Truth Social, the president proposed that Kentucky legislators support a major challenge to Massey after he pledged to defy the GOP in the StopGap funding bill.
WASHINGTON, DC – March 4: Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massey, who voted against Trump’s CR, told the president in X’s post that he would not turn “caves” into “caves” after Trump threatened to threaten a major challenge to him (Photo: Wynn McNamee/Getty Images).
CR is now heading to the Senate and will need the support of at least eight Senate Democrats to overcome the Senate filibuster. Democrat Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has pledged to support CR and told the Daily Caller News Foundation he would never vote to shut down the government.
House GOP Leader is sharp It was criticized A Democrat who pledged to oppose the CR and pledged to make false claims about the bill’s provisions justifying their opposition.
“There’s nothing about Social Security in this bill, it’s not one thing,” the chairman of the House Approvals Committee in Oklahoma, said during a floor discussion on the bill. “We’ve heard a lot about Medicare. We’re not dealing with Medicare on the Approximate Budget Committee. It’s not here. We’ve heard a lot about Medicaid. It’s not here either.”
“If Democrat colleagues want to increase the 21% approval rate with the American people, they have to start by doing the right thing and keeping the government open,” speaker Mike Johnson told the House GOP Leadership Conference on Tuesday.
Over 20% of voters have a favorable approval rating for Congressional Democrats’ job performance. This is the lowest ever, according to a February Kinnipiac University poll.
House GOP leadership announced the 99-page StopGap government funding bill on Saturday, known as the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund government operations until the end of September. The bill is a product of close coordination with the Trump administration, ensuring the government is spending more on de-evacuation spending and funding for veteran health care, and increasing special supplementary nutrition programs for women, infants and children.
The bill also includes funding for pay raises for junior enlistment service members, which is expected to come into effect next month.
Vice President JD Vance and White House management and budget director Russell Vert Vert Robbie GOP lawmakers have never previously supported the StopGap government funding bill to vote for CR. multiple Report.
Some House Democrats have defended the vote against the CR by arguing that the House should continue to negotiate bipartisanly to regularly order government funding bills and pass government funding bills.
“I want to keep the government open, but I’m not voting for CR,” Florida Democrat Jared Moskovitz told DCNF despite previously voting for several suspension funding bills in the last legislature.
House Republicans have accused Democrats of trying to impose restrictions on government efficiency and presidential powers in reducing government spending as the reason the negotiations on the government fundraising bill ultimately stagnated.
“The Democrats are responsible for the confusion we are in as they added these completely non-resident positions to the negotiations,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday. “They wanted us to tie the hands of the administration.”
“They are trying to shut down what President Trump is trying to do, and they are trying to shut down everything Doge is trying to do,” Republican Arizona Rep. Eli Crane told DCNF.
Democrat Arizona Rep. Raul Grialva and Republican North Carolina Rep. Tim Moore did not vote.
Miles Morell contributed to the report.
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