House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., recently canceled a vote on a six-month-stopgap government funding measure that would fund the federal government through March 28, as the Sept. 30 deadline to avoid a government shutdown looms.
The hangup is the speaker’s proposed bill that includes legislation, informally called the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote, plus detractors in his own party who are opposed to stopgap spending measures.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., told Newsmax on Thursday that his colleagues should avoid allowing “perfection to get in the way of the good. And this is a good bill.”
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