These 3 Dems, 14 Republicans crossed aisle on funding bill vote
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) government funding bill was sunk through the combined efforts of Democrats and Republicans in the lower chamber on Wednesday.
Fourteen members of Johnson’s own party voted alongside most Democrats against the Louisiana Republican’s spending plan, which joined a six-month stopgap bill with a measure aiming to require proof of citizenship to vote. However, three Democrats bucked their party and voted in favor of the measure.
Here are the lawmakers that bucked their party on the funding bill, per a roll call from the House clerk:
Rep. Don Davis (D-N.C.)
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine)
The moderate Maine Democrat noted in a Wednesday thread on the social platform X that he backed “the Continuing Resolution [(CR)] to fund government for six months, which includes the SAVE Act” and that his “vote reflects two principles: First, keeping the government funded and avoiding a shutdown is a basic obligation of Congress.”
“Second, citizenship in the U.S. confers awesome responsibilities and exclusive rights — including the exclusive right to vote in American elections,” Golden continued in his X thread.
“These principles are noncontroversial,” Golden added. “However, it’s been apparent for weeks that this bill was doomed to fail. Now that it has, the House GOP must get serious about passing a CR that can pass both chambers and the White House and avoid a costly, unnecessary government shutdown.”
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.)
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.)
“One option that Speaker Johnson has never tried is to put a spending bill on the floor that actually cuts wasteful spending instead of growing it,” Banks said on X Tuesday in response to another post from Punchbowl News’ Melanie Zanona on Johnson’s funding bill.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.)
“Tonight, the House is expected to vote on the Uniparty's bloated spending bill,” the Arizona Republican said in a thread on X Wednesday.
“The House has already passed the SAVE Act,” Biggs added in the thread later. “There is no need to plunge our country deeper into debt for talking points.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)
Boebert said in a post on X Wednesday that she was “voting against the Surrender CR.”
“We have the power of the purse, and we should use it,” Boebert added in her post. “This CR continues massive spending at detrimental levels, keeps the Southern Border wide open for the criminals and fentanyl surging across it, and totally replenishes funds for weaponized federal agencies.”
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.)
“We should've been banging on Chuck Schumer's door when we passed the SAVE Act in July,” Burchett said in a post on X Wednesday. “I'm not voting for a CR that would continue digging your grandchildren's financial hole.”
Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.)
“Friendly reminder,” Crane responded Wednesday to a post on X he made last week in which he said that the lower chamber “has passed both the SAVE Act and H.R. 2.,” referencing a border bill that cleared the House last spring with only Republican votes.
“The Senate is ignoring both. We’ve gone on the record to stand up for election integrity and border security,” Crane’s older post continued. “The Senate is on record ignoring both.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.)
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.)
“If Congress was serious about election integrity why wait 47 DAYS before elections to manufacture political theatre by attaching to a CR knowing the Senate said they will strip it out?” Mills questioned in a Wednesday post on X
“The American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act was dropped in July 2023 and could have passed over a year ago with time to implement. This key piece of legislation never even came to the floor for a vote,” Mills continued in the post. “The SAVE Act, which I proudly cosponsored, passed July 10, 2024, and we should mandate that the Senate passes this bill and takes a vote on H.R 2 Secure The Border Act before ANY further inflationary spending moves forward.”
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas)
“Proud co-sponsor of the SAVE Act here… and this is Cory Mills keeping it [100],” Hunt responded to Mills’s post on X Wednesday.
“When is business as usual in DC going to end, or is that just a campaign slogan used every two years?” Hunt continued.
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.)
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.)
The South Carolina Republican said in a post on X Wednesday that she has “supported the SAVE Act since day 1.”
“But I’ve never voted for a CR. When I said I wanted to cut spending, I meant it,” she continued in her post.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.)
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.)
“#NeverCR,” Rosendale simply posted on X Wednesday.
Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.)
“We have already voted and passed the SAVE act, which Chuck Schumer has and will continue to ignore,” Steube said in a post on X Wednesday. “Putting it on a horrible piece of legislation that does nothing to rein in spending and continues liberal funding measures is not in any way an obligation of Congress.”
“The overwhelming majority of our country does not support late term abortions, Biden’s politicized and weaponized DOJ and the invasion at our Southern Border, which the CR will continue supporting along with a whole host of other liberal and reckless programs and foreign aid to our enemies like Hamas and Hezbollah. All while we are $36 Trillion in Debt and running a $1.5+ Trillion-dollar annual deficit,” Steube continued in his X post.
“I voted NO.”
Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas)
“I look at the spending, and I think that’s one of the largest issues that we have in our country, is $36 trillion in debt, and I look at a bill that’s continuing the excessive spending,” Van Duyne said, per a Wednesday report from The Hill.
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