"House Republicans are leading us to a government shutdown," said House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-CA) as he spoke on government funding during a news conference from Capitol Hill. The chair criticized the Republican plan to extend government funding for six months in order to avoid a government shutdown.

House Republican leadership delivered remarks Wednesday following a closed-door meeting amid the party’s effort to avert a government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told The Hill his decision to reschedule a vote on his partisan spending plan is leaving Congress seemingly no closer to passing a stopgap funding bill ahead of the Sept.