House GOP divided over funding the government by September 30 deadline

House Republicans are currently divided over how to fund the government after the plan to pass a six-month continuing resolution with the SAVE Act attached to it failed to gain enough support this week to be voted on as scheduled. 

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., said on Tuesday at a press conference that the House was going to vote on the continuing resolution along with the SAVE Act. 

The SAVE Act requires voters to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections.  

On Wednesday Johnson pulled the planned vote on the stopgap funding plan and said that the House had to work through the rest of the week to "build consensus," since a number of House Republicans opposed this measure.

"Speaker Johnson is setting up a fake fight for the Save Act, which we already passed in July, to vote to extend the Biden/Harris budget," Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on the social media platform, X. "The American people are tired of being lied to."

"The House has passed this," Greene said in a video. "For everyone to stand in there and say 'we have to vote for this...' but in order to vote for it you have to vote for a continuing resolution that continues the Biden administration's budget?"

Other Republicans opposing Johnson's move include Reps. Cory Mills, R-Fla., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

Some Republicans do support Johnson, such as House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla.

“It’s disappointing that we cannot get the majority of our own members to vote for a bill that they all support, which is attached, and support appropriations bill that are lower than their Democratic counterparts and are at the level that the law dictates,” Cole said, according to The Hill. 

“I have no problem [with] what the Speaker is trying to do, I have a problem that members aren’t supporting what the Speaker is trying,” he continued. 

A source told Just the News that the vote will likely happen next week. Johnson has to line up enough votes in order for it to pass in the House. But even if it does pass in the House, it is considered certain to be rejected by the Democrats, led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., setting up a likely government shutdown after the current fiscal year ends on September 30.