U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled a vote scheduled for Wednesday on his stopgap funding bill, citing the need for more consensus-building ahead of a government shutdown deadline.
WASHINGTON — U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson canceled a vote scheduled for Wednesday on his stopgap funding bill , saying more work is needed to build support for a measure, less than three weeks before a government shutdown deadline.
"No vote today, because we're in the consensus-building business here in Congress, with small majorities, and that's what you do," Johnson told reporters at the Capitol.
The vote had been set for later on Wednesday.
Johnson added that Republicans will be working through the weekend to find a bill that would gain enough votes for passage, now that his measure, opposed by President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats, has faltered.
House Republicans have attached a controversial provision requiring people to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote, a measure meant to force Democrats to take stances on the politically charged issue of non-citizen voting, which is already illegal in federal elections.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who continues to falsely claim his 2020 loss was the result of fraud, has urged Republicans to pass the voting measure ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
The federal government's fiscal year ends Sept. 30.
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