Senate GOP delivers latest blow to Johnson’s doomed spending plan

Senate Republicans are sounding the alarm that House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) government funding plan to punt a new budget into the next administration jeopardizes military readiness and threatens a government shutdown.

The uneasiness among some GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber presents the latest glaring obstacle for the Louisiana Republican’s strategy that already appears doomed in his own chamber and unable to reach the Democratic-led Senate.

The House on Wednesday will vote on a stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR, to extend current spending levels until late March that also includes the GOP’s SAVE Act to require proof of citizenship for voter registration. The bill narrowly cleared a procedural vote on Tuesday.