House Speaker Mike Johnson’s government funding plan is already crumbling with enough Republicans opposed to the resolution to sink it, and more warning the speaker will have to abandon his initial proposal to keep the government open.

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson’s strategy to tie a short-term government funding bill to a Donald Trump-backed proposal overhauling voting laws was on life support Monday after a band of conservative rebels vowed to vote no on the package.

Enough House Republicans ranging from conservative spending critics to those who want a bigger defense budget have come out against Speaker Mike Johnson’s stopgap spending strategy to imperil passage,

House Speaker Mike Johnson is on notice he might have to abort his government funding plan. Why it matters: Johnson has the most at stake if he quickly folds ahead of the Oct. 1 government funding deadline,

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) opening bid to avert a government shutdown appears doomed to fail in the House this week amid widespread — and growing — Republican opposition, thwarting the top lawmaker’s hopes of the proposal squeezing Democrats in both chambers.

House Republicans privately know that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) doesn't have the votes to pass his combined voting regulation and shutdown-averting spending package bill, reported NOTUS — and are just bracing for how bad the politics are going to be for them when it fails.