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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