House GOP heads for showdown after conservatives promise revenge for bipartisan spending deal

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Conservative lawmakers are promising revenge against House GOP leaders and their rank-and-file colleagues after they were sidelined for a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown this week.

The House of Representatives passed a short-term government spending bill known as a continuing resolution (CR) on Thursday to extend last year’s federal funding through early March, in order to give congressional negotiators enough time to set priorities for fiscal year 2024.

With dozens of Republicans having come out against another CR already and just a thin two-seat majority, House leaders bypassed a normally partisan procedural vote to bring the bill up under suspension of the rules, meaning it needed a two-thirds majority for passage.

"Once again, we passed a significant piece of legislation that keeps in place, with predominately Democrat votes, policies that were ran against and campaigned against," House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va., told Fox News Digital after the vote.

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"If you don't need our votes for the significant pieces of legislation that impact the country, that fund the government, and you're going to pass those with Democrat votes on suspension, then you shouldn't presume that you've got our votes for the meaningless messaging bills that are dead on arrival