Wisconsin Republican congressman Glenn Grothman voted in the majority this week when the House voted overwhelmingly to prevent a government shutdown. The U.S. Senate followed suit Wednesday night. New Republican speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal to temporarily fund the government into the new year passed with 93 Republicans voting against it. “We’re not supposed to talk about what happened when we’re behind closed doors but I’ll say this, there were at least four times in the meeting in which Mike Johnson asked these people who were going to vote no how do you expect this to end once the government shuts down? Not one of them ever had an answer,” Grothman told WFDL news. Johnson was forced to reach across the aisle to Democrats when hard-right conservatives revolted against his plan. Grothman says those who voted against had no alternative. Johnson’s proposal puts forward a two part process that temporarily funds some federal agencies to January 19 and others to February 2nd. Its a continuing resolution that comes without any of the deep cuts conservatives demanded, but also fails to include president Biden’s request for nearly $106 billion for Ukraine, Israel, border security and other supplemental funds.
