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By Ryan King and Josh Christenson
Congress is one step closer to a nightmare before Christmas.
A House Republican measure to avert a government shutdown went up in flames Thursday in a 174 to 235 vote after a near-solid bloc of Democrats and 38 Republicans voted against the stopgap, which had been championed by President-elect Donald Trump.
Twenty lawmakers did not cast a vote on the spending patch. Only two Democrats — Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) — voted in favor of it. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) voted present.
The new funding deal would’ve kept the government’s lights on for three months, re-upped farm aid, added a two-year suspension of the debt limit until Jan. 30, 2027, and replenished $110 billion in disaster relief, while cutting out other aspects of a prior deal that went up in flames on Wednesday, according to the 116-page bill’s text.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who backed the new bill, tore into House Democrats – specifically Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries – for tanking the measure…
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