Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Pentagon funding bill was rejected by House Republicans for the second time this week.
The bill’s passage is necessary to avoid a potential government shutdown in just nine days!
Today’s vote was taken after a three-hour meeting yesterday... at which government officials debated various long-term spending solutions.
Every member of the Democratic party voted against the current spending proposal...
Many Republicans want to reduce spending on what they consider “woke.”
After the vote failed to pass... Kevin McCarthy spoke to reporters about the challenges that remain...
Today’s vote in the House was 216 to 212 against moving forward with the military spending procedure.... The bill’s failure marks the third time McCarthy has lost a rule vote in the last four months.
Federal agencies have contingency plans.. in case the US government is to shutdown.. essential workers would stay on the job... Medicare.. Medicaid and social security payments would continue.. as will the US Postal Service... but it’s possible that millions of federal employees would not get paid... and those deemed “non-essential” would be barred from working...
For Annenberg Media - I’m Shivani Gupta.