GOP Hardliners Defeat McCarthy Government Shutdown Bill, Risking Longer Closure
- Defeat deprives House GOP of settled list of shutdown demands
- A bipartisan solution could cost McCarthy his job as speaker
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s plan to keep the government open for 31 days past the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline was defeated by hardliners in his own party, making a lengthy federal closure more likely.
The vote was 232 to 198 against with 21 Republicans joining Democrats to defeat the measure, an embarrassing loss for McCarthy that deprives the House GOP of even a settled list of demands to end the impending shutdown.