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“Now we go back to the playbook. We'll draw up another play, and we'll come up with a solution,” Johnson told reporters immediately following the vote.

Ahead of the vote, former President Donald Trump re-upped his demand that Republicans use a government shutdown threat to ding Democrats on a measure requiring proof of citizenship for registered voters.

The president called on Congress to respond.

The speaker said they’ll delay the vote until next week as they work to quell Republican opposition and “build consensus.” 

Live updates and analysis from POLITICO’s Congress team.

Live updates and analysis from POLITICO’s Congress team

House GOP leaders are hoping to put swing-district Democrats in a bind over a proof-of-citizenship add-on to the spending legislation.

Ahead of the month-end deadline, House GOP leaders are tying a non-citizen voting bill to a six-month funding patch.

Anticipating failure, GOP leaders decided to skip a final passage vote Tuesday night of their measure to fund the Department of Energy and federal water infrastructure programs.

House Republicans have pulled two government funding bills scheduled for a floor vote this week, signaling further peril for leadership’s doomed efforts to pass all 2025 spending measures before the August recess. Republicans’ funding bill for the Agriculture Department and the FDA, in addition to the Financial Services spending bill, will not be considered on the floor as originally planned, according to three sources familiar with the whipping problems. Both measures failed to clear the floor…