Government Spending Impasse Continues

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Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed Democrats’ pleas to call the House back into session and ensure troops get paid Oct. 15 if the government is still shut down.

House Democrats “are clamoring to get back here and have another vote, because some of them want to get on record and say that we’re paying troops,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday. “We already had that vote. It’s called the CR,” he added, referring to the stopgap spending bill the House passed with Republicans and just one Democrat.

Democratic Reps. Gabe Vasquez (N.M.) and Derek Tran (Calif.) will send a letter to Johnson this afternoon, asking for the House to return and vote on legislation to pay troops during a shutdown “immediately.” Johnson canceled this week’s House session and has signaled the chamber would stay away until Senate Democrats fold to accept the GOP-led continuing resolution.

Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from the White House and Capitol Hill, including conversations with influential lawmakers and key figures in politics and policy. On this edition, Joe speaks with:

• Bloomberg Washington Correspondent Tyler Kendall.
• Republican Congressman Jason Smith of Missouri, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
• Stonecourt Capital Partner Rick Davis and Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow Jeanne Sheehan Zaino.
• Democratic Congresswoman Melanie Stanbury of New Mexico.

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