The House rejected Speaker Mike Johnson’s stopgap financing bill by 233 to 174 on Thursday evening.

38 Republicans – including Republican Rep. Chip Roy from Texas – voted against a new continuing resolution. They cited their opposition to raising the debt ceiling with no significant cuts in spending and allowing disaster aid of $110 billion without any funding offset.

Roy stated during the floor debate about the spending package that “we are not going to raise the debt ceiling by just 4 trillion dollars — this is false.” “We are going to increase debt by $5 trillion – that’s exactly what will happen here — by Republicans raising the debt $5 trillion. What are you doing with the same bill, then? You never had the self-respect to campaign and say you were going to balance your budget and then come here and pass $110 Billion unpaid.

Roy continued, “Yes, this bill is better today than yesterday in certain respects.” “But it is a sham to say that this bill, this bill yesterday was better than the one we had yesterday because there are fewer pages but that it increases our debt by $5 trillion.”

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In a Thursday Truth Social post, Donald Trump, the President-elect of the United States, urged GOP legislators to support a spending package.

Trump wrote: “All Republicans and Democrats should vote YES for this Bill tonight, for the best interest of our Country.”

Only two Democrats, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez from Washington and Kathy Castor from Florida, voted in favor of the spending bill. Democratic Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur voted present.

The new spending plan of House Republican Leaders would have funded government until March 2025, and raised the debt ceiling to 2027. The new 116 page stopgap bill is a slimmed down version of the previous spending package which was more than 1,500 total pages. The new CR provided $110 billion for disaster aid to victims of hurricanes Milton and Helene, as well as a one year extension of the Farm Bill. The new CR does not include provisions in the previous CR which gave legislators a raise, restricted U.S. investment abroad in China, and allowed E15 gasoline to be sold year-round. The House GOP leadership removed a one-year funding authorization for the Global Engagement Center that was accused of censoring Conservative speech from the new spending deal.

The bill did not pass with the two-thirds majority required to suspend the rules.

The government funding will expire on Friday evening.