House Republican leaders on Wednesday canceled votes scheduled for next week and are sending members packing for their August recess as their party struggles to pass annual spending bills. 

The change comes as GOP leaders had to pull three spending bills from this week’s floor schedule because they didn’t have the votes to pass them with the party’s narrow majority.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise had set an ambitious summer floor schedule that envisioned Republicans passing all 12 spending bills by August. 

They’ve passed only four and will attempt one more this week before their early departure for the recess. 

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