Despite a wave of Republican opposition, the House on Wednesday passed a stopgap spending bill well ahead of the Oct. 1 government shutdown deadline.

The three-month spending patch then easily passed in the Democrat-run Senate, and the White House signaled its support for it. 

Speaker Mike Johnson had to rely on Democrats to pass the bill as his option of last resort. He earlier failed to pass a more conservative stopgap that included the SAVE Act requiring people to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote. Read Full Story

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The House handed Speaker Mike Johnson an expected defeat Wednesday, voting down his stopgap, six-month funding bill that requires proof of citizenship to vote. 

“I’m already talking to colleagues about their many ideas. We have time to fix the situation,” Johnson said. Though most Republicans supported the push to again force Democrats to consider the SAVE Act, some were unwilling to test the politically dangerous waters of shuttering the government ahead of the election.

Congress has seven working days to avoid a partial government shutdown before the Oct. 1 deadline. Read Full Story

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Republicans on the House Administration Committee grilled a bipartisan panel of state officials Wednesday on how they will ensure safe and secure elections, as concerns about voter fraud in the 2020 election persist.

Secretaries of state from Arizona, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, New Mexico, and West Virginia appeared at the hearing titled “American Confidence in Elections: Looking Ahead to the 2024 General Election.” 

During the hearing’s opening statements, Republican secretaries of state focused on what procedures are already in place to ensure confidence, while their Democrat counterparts stressed that perpetuating false fraud claims could be dangerous and damaging to election integrity. Read Full Story

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