Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., and Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.,: The House Appropriately Passed a Proposed Budget Measure for the U.S. Department

Some McCarthy allies, like Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., argued a temporary fix to funding the government was needed so House Republicans can continue to push for conservative spending policy without the threat of a shutdown. There was no way to get a bill passed without the support of a group of conservative GOP members. McCarthy can’t lose more than four votes.

It is the latest example of Congress being unable to get anything done in the days and weeks leading up to a government shutdown. House Republicans have been mired in internal battles over spending and political tactics that have put them at odds with Democrats and most Republicans in the Senate.

The Senate is working on its own bipartisan bill to avert any shutdown, but still has procedural steps to get through and the chamber may not vote before a shutdown begins.

McCarthy ignored the Senate’s proposal and chose to move ahead on a GOP crafted measure funded agencies through October 31 and included border security provisions that were part of a Republican-passed bill. It also included a provision creating a bipartisan commission to study the national debt.

There were a group of hardliners going into the vote demanding that Congress take action on all the spending bills, because they said they wouldn’t approve any short term bill. 21 GOP members voted against the vote.

Conservatives pushed back against the stopgap bill. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., told reporters he would vote no against a continuing resolution. “There’s no such thing as a clean CR.” He argued if one passed he didn’t believe the House would continue taking up the rest of the annual spending bills.

Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., noted the White House already issued a veto threat on the GOP bill, stating during the floor debate, “this is a complete waste of time.”

Democrats denounced the steep spending cuts in the GOP bill, instead of keeping current spending levels for all agencies, the measure walled off a few departments, but slashed others by 30 percent.

The bill would cut investments in cancer research, leave communities recovering from natural disasters out to dry, erode our support for Israel, and take food out of the mouths of millions. The costs of living in the US are already too high, and this bill is going to make things worse by raising costs for American families.

The bill would also extend authorization for the Federal Aviation Administration until the end of the year and includes $16 billion in emergency disaster assistance requested by the White House. It does not include any money for Ukraine.

An amendment to the Senate bill that addresses border security is being worked on by Republicans and Sinema in an attempt to win over GOP House members. It’s unclear whether their efforts will yield a proposal that will get support from Senate Democrats. Some conservative House Republicans aren’t willing to include any additional aide for Ukraine.

A bipartisan group of House Republicans and Democrats have been holding a meeting to put together a plan for when there’s a government shut down.

But the loss also made clear that Mr. McCarthy faces almost impossible odds of getting a stopgap funding bill through with votes from his own party alone, and that the simplest way to avert a shutdown would be for him to work with Democrats on a compromise measure. His detractors said that would lead to him being ousted from the speakership.

House G.O.P. leaders emerged from a more than two-hour closed-door meeting held after the vote without a clear path forward to avert a shutdown. Much of the discussion centered around adjusting the same strategy that delivered Mr. McCarthy his defeat earlier in the day: trying to entice conservatives to vote for stopgap funding legislation by promising that it would give lawmakers more time to pass individual spending bills — their stated goal.

With a shutdown just a day away, House Republicans retired for the evening without a clear idea of what, if anything, they would be asked to support on the floor on Saturday. A bare-bones 14-day stopgap bill emerged as one possibility for Republicans, though it was far from clear if it could pass.

Republicans came out of the meeting “all over the map,” said Representative Steve Womack, Republican of Arkansas and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee. He predicted that House Republicans would soon be forced to consider the bipartisan stopgap plan moving forward in the Senate if they could not pass a funding bridge of their own.

A last-minute change in the House’s votes resulted in approval of a 45 day extension of federal funding. The fate of the bill in the Senate remains unclear, though the broad bipartisan support in the House puts pressure on senators to accept the stopgap and avoid a shutdown.

Putting the American public to the test: McCarthy’s proposal for a new spending bill in the House Appropriations Committee on Ukraine

“What I am asking, Republicans and Democrats alike, put your partisanship away, focus on the American public,” McCarthy told reporters before the vote.

As senators crept towards their own vote, across the Capitol, the House Appropriations Committee’s Democratic staff members released an analysis criticizing the bill for not including money for Ukraine.

Johnson pointed to the 21 far right Republican members who blocked a GOP bill on Friday as the reason why the speaker moved to this new plan. We were in a better position to pass a less conservative bill because of the members. Now the good news is this is still a pathway to get the kind of conservative wins we need through the appropriations process.”

In order to not disrupt the school year, the House canceled their district recess and passed four of the twelve spending bills that funding federal agencies.

McCarthy will have to face a challenge for his gavel. Gaetz said he was planning to file a resolution to oust the speaker. When McCarthy was elected in January, he agreed to the rules that only one lawmaker needed to file a “motion to withdraw” from the speaker’s post.

Asked by reporters if he was worried about his job, the speaker said, “you know what, if somebody wants to remove because I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try.”