Vance Tells House Republicans They'll Be Blamed for Government Shutdown
Source: Daily Beast
Updated Mar. 11 2025 2:39PM EDT
Published Mar. 11 2025 12:52PM EDT
Vice President JD Vance cautioned House Republicans Tuesday that if they vote against their party’s funding bill—and the government shuts down this weekend—they will be blamed. “We already lost one vote, we can’t lose another,” sources said Vance told GOP lawmakers during a private meeting ahead of a scheduled late afternoon vote on a bill to extend government funding for another six months.
Vance’s plea for votes was directed at a handful of House Republicans who have expressed misgivings about supporting the legislation crafted by House Speaker Mike Johnson and blessed by President Donald Trump. The bill would increase defense spending and ramp up funding for ICE to fulfill Trump’s campaign promise to carry out the largest mass deportation in American history. The House is expected to vote on the bill late Tuesday afternoon ahead of Friday’s midnight shutdown deadline.
Vance also noted that Senate Democrats would likely take the blame if the stopgap government funding measure doesn’t get through the upper chamber, where the bill faces an uphill battle. The vice president sought to exert White House pressure on House Republicans to rally behind the legislation, known as a continuing resolution, and not join Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), the lone dissenter who Trump has vowed to unseat.
One of the GOP holdouts, Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida, was unfazed by Vance’s threat. “I’ve seen the bulls--t,” Cammack, who served as a House aide before becoming an elected official, told reporters.
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