House votes against stopgap bill in blow to McCarthy as shutdown highly likely

Speaker's proposed measure tanked by hard-right Republicans with less than 48 hours before government funding lapses

The House Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy, suffered another embarrassing defeat on Friday, after hard-right lawmakers tanked his stopgap funding bill that would have averted a federal shutdown on Sunday morning.

McCarthy's proposed stopgap measure, which would have funded the government for another month while enacting severe spending cuts on most federal agencies, failed in a vote of 198 to 232, as 21 Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the legislation.