Congress is one step closer to a nightmare before Christmas.
A House Republican measure to avert a government shutdown went up in flames Thursday in a 174 to 235 vote after a near-solid bloc of Democrats and 38 Republicans voted against the stopgap, which had been championed by President-elect Donald Trump.
Twenty lawmakers did not cast a vote on the spending patch. Only two Democrats — Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) — voted in favor of it. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) voted present.
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