Speaker Johnson's Government Funding Plan On Brink Of Collapse

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) plan to fund the government for six months, paired with the SAVE Act bill - a Trump-endorsed bill that requires citizenship ID to register to vote, appears on the brink of collapse.

• The plan, which is under a veto threat from the White House, now faces unclear support from a diverse group of House Republicans, including hardline conservatives who oppose short-term funding measures on principle and defence hawks who see a Pentagon budget shortfall as a national security risk.
• Punchbowl reports Johnson said “we’ll find out” if the Continuing Resolution can pass, and yesterday noted he had no fallback option, "a comment that sent shudders throughout the GOP ranks."
• Johnson added he's "working on" a vote for Wednesday, but the seemingly imminent implosion of the plan may hasten our baseline scenario that the Senate will return a ‘clean’ CR – minus the SAVE Act – with a revised timeframe into December.
• Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) said: “It’s not going to be a six-month CR,” adding that she’s working on a three-month CR with her counterpart, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME).
• Collins said: “I would prefer a CR that went through just December. We’re going to have a new administration regardless, and they should have a clean slate.”
• Politico reports that Johnson will make a case in person this morning, "that passing something through the House as a Republican majority is preferable to the alternative: Another faceplant, and another clean, bipartisan bill passed under suspension of the rules.”