Democrats backed an eleventh hour Republican measure to continue federal funding for 45 days.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appealed to both Republicans and Democrats to ‘put your partisanship away’.
Ninety of the votes against the measure came from Republicans. The deal still has to be approved by the Democrat-controlled Senate. Pitching his last-gasp proposal, McCarthy had appealed to both Republicans and Democrats to “put your partisanship away” and dismissed the threat to his job.
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