House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Oct. 8 struck down the possibility of his chamber voting on a standalone measure to keep paying the military during the government shutdown.
Instead, he pointed to the continuing resolution, which remains held up in the Senate, reiterating that the House of Representatives had already voted on such a bill.
“Of course, we want to pay our troops and our air traffic controllers and our Border Patrol agents, TSA, and everybody else,” Johnson said. “We did have that vote. The House—I keep saying—the House did its job. We did that almost three weeks ago.”…