Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson could not even get all members of his own party behind the new proposal.
The US House of Representatives has rejected a Republican funding bill that sought to prevent a US government shutdown.
Federal agencies are in danger of running out of money and will start to close on Saturday, if an agreement on funding is not reached in Congress. The parties had already reached an agreement on the matter, but the future president Donald Trump unexpectedly demanded a renegotiation of the contract.
The Republicans’ controversial bill would have removed the debt ceiling specified in the law for Trump’s first two years in office.
The motion would have required a two-thirds majority to pass, but the Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson couldn’t even get all the members of his own Republican Party behind the new proposal. The show clearly failed in chapters 174–235.
Sources: STT, AFP, AP