The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee called the Republicans’ stopgap funding fight “fanatic-on-fanatic violence,” calling out his colleagues for

The House is set to vote Wednesday on Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to keep the government funded with Congress up against an October 1 deadline to pass a spending bill or continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown.

Speaker Mike Johnson is moving ahead with a vote on a six-month GOP government funding plan that is expected to fail, a move that will put Republican divisions on full display, but could then allow the Louisiana Republican to pivot as the threat of a shutdown looms.

The House on Wednesday voted down Speaker Mike Johnson's government funding plan with 14 Republicans voting against it and two others voting present. The measure failed by a 202-222-2 margin. Three Democrats voted for the bill.

House Republicans voted down Speaker Mike Johnson's proposal to fund the government, leaving the path to averting a shutdown unclear and putting Johnson in danger of disappointing former President Trump and his conference's right-flank.

The House rejected Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to keep the government funded on Wednesday, with a small group of Republicans joining Democrats to oppose the measure and sending lawmakers scrambling for a backup plan with less than two weeks until a possible government shutdown.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to reschedule a vote on his partisan spending plan is leaving Congress seemingly no closer to averting a government shutdown at the end of the month, as critics of the proposal on both sides of the aisle dig in their heels.