House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters during a Capitol briefing on Wednesday that he won’t call a separate vote in the chamber to guarantee pay for military service members during the government shutdown.
The Louisiana Republican said the House “already had that vote” in the continuing resolution, or CR, and suggested it’s now up to Senate Democrats to get to work.
“Of course, we want to pay our troops and our air traffic controllers and our border patrol agents and TSA, and everybody else. We did have that vote in the House,” Johnson said.
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