Interested readers can find out how their representatives voted on the measure at the website of the House clerk.
The measure now moves to the Senate, where Chuck Schumer urged quick action on it.
“Let’s finish the job today. Let’s avoid even a weekend shutdown. Let’s finish the job of funding the government for the remainder of the fiscal year,” Schumer said, according to Reuters.
“There is no reason to delay,” he added.
Should House Republicans have blocked this bill?
Yes: 0% (0 Votes)
No: 0% (0 Votes)
The bill as written includes over 1,000 pages, detailing funding of raises for U.S. service members and funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Departments of Justice, State and the Treasury, Reuters said.
Nearly three-quarters of the $1.2 trillion bill will go to funding the Defense Department.
According to Axios, most of the federal funding would remain the same as it was in 2023.
The 22 Democrats who voted against the bill did so in protest of the fact that it prohibited funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency over concerns that that organization had supported the radical Islamic terrorists of Hamas in their attacks against Israel.
“Today’s minibus would ban funding for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency until next year, preventing millions of Palestinian civilians from getting the humanitarian aid they desperately need as [Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin] Netanyahu’s war on the people of Gaza continues,” New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman claimed, according to Axios.
During the vote, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson, who won the speakership in October after former California Rep. Kevin McCarthy found himself on the receiving end of the same type of motion.
“It’s more of a warning and a pink slip,” Greene told reporters after filing the motion, according to Fox News. “There’s not a time limit on this, it doesn’t have to be forced … But I’m not saying that it won’t happen in two weeks, or it won’t happen.”
In reality, Johnson is unlikely to be ousted from the role, as at least two Democrats have indicated that they would likely vote to support him as speaker.
“I do not support Speaker Johnson but I will never stand by and let MTG to take over the people’s House,” Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz said in a post to X, for example.
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George Upper is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Western Journal and was a weekly co-host of “WJ Live,” powered by The Western Journal. He is currently a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. A former U.S. Army special operator, teacher and consultant, he is a lifetime member of the NRA and an active volunteer leader in his church. Born in Foxborough, Massachusetts, he has lived most of his life in central North Carolina.
George Upper, is the former editor-in-chief of The Western Journal and is now a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. He currently serves as the connections pastor at Awestruck Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a former U.S. Army special operator, teacher, manager and consultant. Born in Massachusetts, he graduated from Foxborough High School before joining the Army and spending most of the next three years at Fort Bragg. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English as well as a Master’s in Business Administration, all from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He and his wife life only a short drive from his three children, their spouses and his grandchildren. He is a lifetime member of the NRA and in his spare time he shoots, reads a lot of Lawrence Block and John D. MacDonald, and watches Bruce Campbell movies. He is a fan of individual freedom, Tommy Bahama, fine-point G-2 pens and the Oxford comma.
