These GOP senators voted against the bipartisan bill to keep the government open for 45 days while Congress negotiates a long-term spending bill.
Nine Republican senators voted against a government spending bill passed by the House of Representatives in a last-minute effort to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday.
Congress passed the spending bill with just hours left until the end-of-September deadline for passing a series of appropriations bills to fund the government through the next fiscal year. House Republicans were unable to reach a deal on a spending bill, with the party’s most conservative flank withholding their support, prompting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to push a short term spending bill that keeps federal funding at its current levels, but does not include additional funding for Ukraine, for 45 days.
It passed both the House and Senate with bipartisan support, with members of both parties rallying in support of it to avoid a shutdown, which could have impacted millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of federal workers across the country who would have been furloughed.
