Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson intends to hold a Wednesday vote on a six-month stopgap federal funding measure, Punchbowl News reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.

Trump claims to be a “leader on fertilization.” His party wants to leave it up to the whim of states, with disastrous consequences.

House Republicans are expected to derail their own plan to avert a government shutdown, which they've tied to a Donald Trump-backed bill on noncitizen voting.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) government funding bill was sunk through the combined efforts of Democrats and Republicans in the lower chamber on Wednesday. Fourteen members of Johnson’s own party voted alongside most Democrats against the Louisiana Republican’s spending plan,

Johnson previously scrapped a vote on the bill last week to spend the weekend rounding up support from hesitant members of his caucus. He also attached the SAVE Act to the legislation, which would prohibit states from registering non-citizens as voters—something Johnson himself has admitted is already illegal under federal law.