在两党投票中，众议院通过了议长迈克·约翰逊的计划，以避免周五最后期限前几天政府关闭。
最终的投票结果是336比95，更多的民主党人投票支持临时拨款法案，而不是共和党人，分别是209比127。90多名共和党人投了反对票。该法案需要三分之二的多数票才能通过。
这项措施现在正等待参议院的批准。参议院领导人表示他们将支持该法案，并承诺迅速采取行动。
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊在一项关键的决议投票前会见了记者，该决议旨在将政府资金维持在现有水平，他的强硬右翼并不衷心支持这项措施...显示更多undefined
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投票结束后，约翰逊在离开众议院会议厅时对着镜头说，“我们很高兴，我们对结果很满意。”
约翰逊告诉美国广播公司新闻节目主持人杰伊·奥布莱恩说:“我们必须完成这项工作，我们将一天一天地做下去。”。
在他作为新任命的议长的第一次测试中，约翰逊提出了一个两步走的政府计划，他将其描述为“阶梯式CR”-或连续决议-将政府资金保持在2023年的水平。该法案将退伍军人事务、交通、住房和城市发展、能源部以及军事建设的政府资金延长至1月19日。政府的其余部分直到2月2日都有资金支持。
该法案不包括对以色列或乌克兰的任何补充援助。
约翰逊认为，该计划将允许众议院通过其余的个人支出法案，并避免圣诞节附近的大规模支出法案。
尽管不得不依靠民主党的支持来克服共和党强硬派的反对，约翰逊仍将该法案的通过视为共和党的胜利，称其“将众议院共和党人置于争取保守政策胜利的最佳位置”
“在即将到来的补充辩论中，我们也处于更有利的位置，以要求边境安全，确保对乌克兰援助的监督，并支持我们珍视的盟友以色列，”约翰逊在投票后的一份声明中说。
在数十名共和党人反对他的计划后，约翰逊严重依赖他的民主党同事。众议院民主党领导层在投票前不久发表了一份声明，表明会议将支持约翰逊的计划，这给了议长更多的信心，使其能够在投票前获得通过。
在投票前的众议院辩论中，德克萨斯州共和党众议员凯·格兰杰称该计划是“在我们解决政治分歧时非常实用的计划。”众议员哈尔罗杰斯，R-Ky。，敦促他的同事支持该法案，称“政府在假期前关闭对我们的国家没有好处。”
康涅狄格州民主党众议员罗莎·德劳罗(Rosa DeLauro)抨击了共和党的计划，并补充说，“它说了一些关于治理能力和治理意愿的非常尖锐的事情。”此外，她还提到，该计划不包括对以色列和乌克兰等海外盟友的资助，也不包括对妇女、婴儿和儿童补充营养计划(通常称为WIC)的“亏空”。
周二早些时候，约翰逊与他的会议闭门会议，以动摇坚持者-但有几个人离开会议无动于衷。田纳西州众议员安迪·奥格尔斯称约翰逊的计划是“投降”。德克萨斯州众议员奇普·罗伊称之为“错误”。
在后来的新闻发布会上，美国广播公司新闻资深国会记者雷切尔·斯科特问约翰逊，那些共和党人对他的前进感到愤怒。
“我们没有投降，我们在战斗，但你必须明智地选择战斗。...你必须打你能赢的仗，我们将会，你也将会看到众议院大多数议员站在我们的原则上。
“瞧，我花了几十年才陷入这种困境，对吧，我做这份工作还不到三周，对吧?...我不可能在一夜之间把一艘航空母舰。但这是让我们进入下一阶段的非常重要的第一步，这样我们就可以改变华盛顿的工作方式。
具有讽刺意味的是，约翰逊被推进的权宜之计与导致凯文·麦卡锡被赶下台的计划是一样的。
宾夕法尼亚州众议员丹·默瑟尔说:“议长约翰逊有点像替补四分卫，当他进入比赛时，你不能责怪他的得分。”
其他共和党人承认政府分裂和政党严重分裂的现实。
“在共和党会议上，你无法让我们217人同意今天是星期二，”众议员特洛伊·尼尔斯说。
“迈克不得不接触民主党人，因为你不能让共和党人在任何事情上达成一致，”他补充说。
参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)周二上午表示，他对约翰逊的政府拨款提案“非常振奋”，并表示他和少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)将努力尽快将这项权宜之计法案提交给议会。
“领袖麦康奈尔和我将找出最好的方法来尽快完成这项工作。我和麦康奈尔都不想关门，”舒默说。
舒默已经接受了众议院的提议，因为它不包括任何开支削减。
“众议院面前的提案做了两件民主党人推动的事情，”舒默说。“第一，不要做MAGA wing要求的强硬右切，第二，确保如果他们要做这种愚蠢的梯子，防守是在梯子的第二部分，而不是第一部分。”
舒默被问及他与白宫的决裂，白宫最初认为共和党的提议“不严肃”。
“我认为我们都希望避免政府关门，我已经和白宫谈过了，我们双方都同意，白宫和我本人，如果这能避免政府关门，那将是一件好事。”
麦康奈尔周二对拨款提案给予了明确的支持。他说，他为约翰逊“感到高兴”，他“期待在两党基础上通过短期法案。”
麦康奈尔说:“很高兴看到我们共同努力，防止政府关门，并处理从现在到CR到期这段时间我们面临的所有其他重大问题。”
Democrats help Johnson pass GOP bill to avoid government shutdown
In a bipartisan vote, the House has passed Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avert a government shutdown just days ahead of a Friday deadline.
The final vote was 336-95 with more Democrats voting for the stopgap funding bill than did Republicans -- 209 to 127, respectively. More than 90 Republicans voted against it. The bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass.
The measure now goes on to the Senate for approval. Senate leaders have indicated they will support it and promised quick action.
Leaving the House chamber following the vote, Johnson said on camera “we’re pleased, we’re pleased with the outcome.”
“We just gotta get the job done -- we will do it day by day,” Johnson told ABC News' Jay O’Brien.
In his first test as the newly-appointed speaker, Johnson pitched a two-step government plan that he described as a "laddered CR" -- or continuing resolution -- that would keep the government funded at 2023 levels. The bill extends government funding until Jan. 19 for the Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy departments, as well as for military construction. The rest of the government is funded until Feb. 2.
The bill does not include any supplemental aid for Israel or Ukraine.
Johnson argued that the plan would allow for the House to pass the rest of the individual spending bills and avoid a massive spending bill near Christmas.
Despite having to rely on Democratic support to overcome GOP hard-liners' opposition, Johnson spun the bill's passage as a Republican victory, saying it "puts House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative policy victories."
"We also are better positioned in the upcoming supplemental debate to demand Border Security, ensure oversight of Ukraine aid, and support our cherished ally, Israel," Johnson said in a statement after the vote.
Johnson leaned heavily on his Democratic colleagues after dozens of Republicans opposed his plan. House Democratic leadership issued a statement shortly before the vote, indicating the conference would support Johnson's plan -- giving the speaker added confidence of its passage heading into the vote.
During debate on the House floor before the vote, Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, called the plan a "very practical plan while we work out our political differences." Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., urged his colleagues to support the bill saying "a government shutdown just before the holidays does our nation no good."
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., slammed the GOP plan, adding "it says something very poignant about the ability to govern and the willingness to govern." Also, she mentioned that it doesn't include funding for overseas allies such as Israel and Ukraine and "shortchanges" the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children -- commonly known as WIC.
Earlier Tuesday, Johnson met with his conference behind closed doors to sway holdouts -- yet several left the meeting unmoved. Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee called Johnson's plan a "surrender." Texas Rep. Chip Roy called it a "mistake."
At a later news conference, ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott asked Johnson about those Republicans outraged about his going forward.
"We're not surrendering, we're fighting but you have to be wise about choosing the fights. ...You got to fight fights that you can win, and we're going to and you're going to see this House majority stand together on our principle," he said.
"Look, it took decades to get into this mess, right, I've been at the job less than three weeks, right? ...I can't turn an aircraft carrier overnight. But this was a very important first step to get us to the next stage so that we can change how Washington works," he added.
The irony is that Johnson is pushed forward with the same type of stopgap plan that led to Kevin McCarthy being ousted as speaker.
"Speaker Johnson came in kind of like the backup quarterback, you can't blame him for the score of the game when he enters the game," Rep. Dan Meuser or Pennsylvania said.
Other Republicans acknowledge the realities of a divided government and a deeply divided party.
"In the Republican conference, you couldn't get 217 of us to agree that today's Tuesday," Rep. Troy Nehls said.
"Mike is having to reach out to the Democrats, because you can't get the Republicans to agree on anything," he added.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday morning he was "very heartened" by Johnson's government funding proposal, and said that he and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would work to move the stopgap bill to the floor expeditiously.
"Leader McConnell and I will figure out the best way to get this done quickly. Neither McConnell nor I want a shut down," Schumer said.
Schumer has embraced the House proposal because it does not include any spending cuts.
"The proposal before the House does two things Democrats pushed for," Schumer said. "One: not making the hard-right cuts that the MAGA wing demands and second, making sure that if they are going to do this sort of goofy ladder that defense is in the second part of the ladder -- not the first."
Schumer was asked about his break from the White House, which originally dismissed the GOP proposal as "unserious."
"I think that we all want to avoid a shutdown, I've talked to the White House and both of us agree, the White House and myself, that if this can avoid a shutdown, it would be a good thing."
McConnell gave a ringing endorsement of the funding proposal Tuesday. He said he was "happy for" Johnson and that he "looks forward to passing the short term bill on a bipartisan basis."
"It's nice to see us working together to prevent a government shutdown and to deal with all of the other big issues that we have ahead of us during this period between now and the time the CR expires," McConnell said.
