With vacations on the line, House finally manages to fund the government

The House passed the government funding package for the remainder of this fiscal year Friday, 286-134. Once again, Speaker Mike Johnson had to put the bill on the floor under suspension of the rules, and once again, Democrats had to make up the margin to pass it. And they get to do it all again in six months.

Here’s how tight the margin for Johnson was:

That’s because the Freedom Caucus, as usual, opposed the bill. Before the vote, they held a temper tantrum for the press Friday morning, urging their colleagues to shut the government down instead of passing the funding bill. They called it a “surrender,” and said it “is chock full of crap.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Freedom Caucus reject, yelled on X (formerly Twitter), “Our Republican majority is a complete failure. … I’m voting NO! SHUT IT DOWN!”