House Republicans sent the last four fiscal 2026 spending bills over a key procedural hurdle Thursday, setting up two votes later in the day to send them together to the Senate.
Republicans stayed mostly united on the 214-213 test vote to advance the package that would fund the Pentagon and departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education, as well as a separate measure to fund the Homeland Security Department through Sept. 30.
The vote was held open for nearly an hour as Speaker Mike Johnson first negotiated with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) to flip her vote, and then undertook a…
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