House Speaker Johnson pulls government funding bill after GOP support collapses

House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled a planned vote Wednesday on a stopgap funding bill that could keep the government open for the next six months after more than a dozen of his fellow Republicans walked back their support for it.

“We’re going to work through the weekend on that,” said Johnson, R-La., less than five hours before the scheduled vote.

“No vote today because we’re in the consensus-building business here in Congress with small majorities,” he said.