GOP capitulates on spending bill

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/politics/house-vote-government-funding-johnson-democrats/index.html

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The bill that passed was Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) "Plan B," which included a few goodies for various parts of the federal bureaucracy (e.g., FEMA), but no money for the Department of Defense and no SAVE Act. The vote in the House was 341 to 82, with 209 Democrats and 132 Republicans voting "yea," and 82 Republicans voting "nay." Over in the Senate, it was 78 to 18, with 50 Democrats and independents and 28 Republicans voting "yea" and 18 Republicans voting "nay."

As we have noted a couple of times, this result is a very big poke in the eye for Donald Trump. He demanded that the SAVE Act be included in the bill, and didn't get it. He demanded that House Republicans shut the government down, and he didn't get that, either. In fact, his position didn't even manage a majority among the Republican conference, in either chamber. His power to do mischief is fading (though it will substantially come back to life if he's returned to the White House, of course).

Meanwhile, the Freedom Caucusers in the House have steam coming out of their ears. But it's pretty clear, at this point, that they are all bark and no bite. They could theoretically move to vacate the chair, but they know that: (1) they are not going to get a speaker more friendly to them than Johnson, and (2) they would infuriate their Republican colleagues if they pulled that stunt weeks before an election. So, the FCers (plus expelled former FCer Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA) will go on Newsmax and OAN to carp about how much they've been wronged, and... nobody will care.

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