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NOPE: Trump-Backed Funding Bill Fails House Vote As 38 Republicans Say 'No'
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenThe bill required 2/3 of the vote under a fast-track method, yet didn't even clear a simple majority.
Polymarket odds of a shutdown have spiked to 76% as of this writing
Update (1752ET): In what comes as a surprise to nobody, Democrats want their pork - and have said "Hell no" to the massively reduced spending package that Mike Johnson rolled out after conferring with the Trump team.
"The Musk-Johnson proposal is not serious. It's laughable. Extreme MAGA Republicans are driving us to a government shutdown," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters as he walked into a closed-door caucus meeting Thursday afternoon.
In short, it's doomed.
"I'm not simply a no. I'm a hell no," Jeffries then said at the closed-door meeting, Politico reports, citing three people familiar with the meeting.
More via Politico:
Other Democratic lawmakers also expressed doubts about the legislation, which Republican leaders were teeing up for a vote Thursday evening. It would suspend the debt ceiling through early 2027, fund the government through March, and include billions in disaster relief funds, a top Democratic priority.
The vote on the bill is scheduled to come up via a process called suspension, which means it needs to meet a two-thirds vote threshold to pass. If Democrats are roundly against it, it will fail on the floor — leaving Congress without an obvious solution to avoid a shutdown.
"This was done on short notice," said Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, who said he was opposed. "We reached an agreement on a bipartisan basis between the respective leadership and the membership of both parties, only to have an interruption take place and then a veto occurs after the agreement has been rendered and reached."
President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk worked to spike the original deal on Wednesday, sending the House careening down an alternate path with a deadline looming.




