The House voted down a short-term government funding bill Friday, amid Republican infighting that threatens to trigger a government shutdown in less than two days without a full-year spending plan in place.
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The House voted 198-232 against the stopgap measure, with 21 Republicans making good on their promises to join all Democrats in rejecting the plan that would have kept the government open for 30 days to give lawmakers time to work out a full-year deal.
The legislation would have been doomed in the Democratic-controlled Senate, which also has yet to pass a fiscal year 2024 spending plan and is expected to vote on its own short-term funding bill Saturday that House Republicans have vowed to kill.
The expiration of the current budget, at the end of the 2023 fiscal year at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, would prompt furloughs of hundreds of thousands of government workers and a pause in some government services, including food and water safety inspections, along with the closure of most national parks.
This is a developing story and will be updated.