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The House Budget Stalemate Enters Its Fourth Week

A continuing resolution is the only path that avoids a shutdown, and the Speaker has the votes for neither.

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By David Okafor
Politics Editor · Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON · June 5, 2026 · 1:45 PM ET
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The House Budget Stalemate Enters Its Fourth Week

The arithmetic in the House Republican conference has not changed since Memorial Day. The Speaker can lose four votes. He is, by current count, twenty-three votes short of a clean continuing resolution and seventeen votes short of one with spending caps attached.

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David Okafor

Politics Editor in Washington. Two decades on the Hill.