The House of Representatives has voted on the “clean” continuing resolution (CR), known as the American Relief Act of 2024, fostered by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and endorsed earlier on Thursday by incoming president, Donald Trump, and the spending bill has failed.
Earlier, we got a heads up that the vote would happen, and the projected next steps, via Melanie Zanona, senior congressional reporter for PunchbowlNews.com:
On timing: House will vote on CR at 6p under suspension (2/3 needed for passage.)
If it fails, which is expected, it’ll go to Rules Committee later 2night. This will be 1st hurdle.
If they can pass the rule, then Speaker will try to pass the CR via a rule tmrw. That will be a…
— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) December 19, 2024
The post reads:
On timing: House will vote on CR at 6p under suspension (2/3 needed for passage.)
If it fails, which is expected, it’ll go to Rules Committee later 2night. This will be 1st hurdle.
If they can pass the rule, then Speaker will try to pass the CR via a rule tmrw. That will be a close vote.
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Then voting officially began at around 6:32 p.m. EST
House now voting on retooled interim spending bill
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 19, 2024
Here was how the Democrat House Whip, Katherine Clark described the new bill earlier in the day:
The @HouseGOP has plunged the country into chaos.
They’ll do anything to slash Social Security checks and hand tax breaks to their billionaire buddies. pic.twitter.com/l7bGjCTonG
— Katherine Clark (@WhipKClark) December 19, 2024
Speaker Mike Johnson made remarks to media about the process, as voting on the bill continued:
.@SpeakerJohnson on CR: “This is Washington. This is how lawmaking is done…The only change in this legislation is that we are going to push the debt limit to January 30, 2027.” pic.twitter.com/x5FKmAhZWx
— CSPAN (@cspan) December 19, 2024
Johnson said, in part:
We’re going to do the right thing tonight.
The American Relief Act of 2024 will provide us temporary funding, to get us into the first part of next year.
…
We’ll be able to make the key decisions about funding for the 2025 fiscal year. This [CR] will allow us to do that. In addition, we’re going to take care of Americans who have suffered true, devastating emergences and disasters.
Read related: BREAKING: House Hammers Out ‘Plan B’ Continuing Resolution. Here’s What’s in It.
Now, the voting is over, according to Chad Pergram of Fox News, with the legislation failing to garner a simple majority, 174-234:
New GOP interim spending bill fails. The bill did not even get a simple majority and it needed 2/3 The vote was 174 yeas to 234 nays. 38 GOPers voted against new plan pushed by Trump
Here are the Republicans who voted nay:
GOPers who voted no on new GOP spending bill: Bean (FL)
Biggs
Brecheen
Burchett
Burlison
Cammack
Cloud
Clyde
Crane
Curtis
Duncan
Fulcher
Good (VA)
Gosar
Harris
Hunt
Lamborn
Lesko
Lopez
Luttrell
Mace
Massie
McCormick
Mills
Mooney
Moore (UT)
Moran
Norman…
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 20, 2024
Bean (FL)
Biggs
Brecheen
Burchett
Burlison
Cammack
Cloud
Clyde
Crane
Curtis
Duncan
Fulcher
Good (VA)
Gosar
Harris
Hunt
Lamborn
Lesko
Lopez
Luttrell
Mace
Massie
McCormick
Mills
Mooney
Moore (UT)
Moran
Norman
Ogles
Perry
Posey
Rosendale
Roy
Schweikert
Self
Spartz
Tiffany
Van Duyne
And two Dems crossed the aisle, with one voting “present”:
2 Dem yeas: Gluesenkamp Perez & Castor. 1 Dem “present”: Kaptur
Zanona reported on what happens next:
WHERE WE’RE AT.
Johnson’s new CR, which was endorsed by Trump, just went down in flames on the floor.
Leadership not gonna bother trying to take it through rules. They’re gonna have to come up with a Plan C.
Government shuts down in 29 hours.
— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) December 20, 2024
WHERE WE’RE AT.
Johnson’s new CR, which was endorsed by Trump, just went down in flames on the floor.
Leadership not gonna bother trying to take it through rules. They’re gonna have to come up with a Plan C.
Government shuts down in 29 hours.
The vote came after the original deal on spending with Democrat votes promised was scrapped late Wednesday. As this is a breaking story, RedState will provide updates as they become available.
