Escalation: House conservatives threaten Johnson budget framework

Speaker Mike Johnson’s $95 billion budget framework for Iran war costs and farm aid ran into open resistance. Reps. Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson said they will vote no, and Rep. Kevin Kiley said he is very unlikely to support it. With a margin that allows only two defections, those stances put the plan at risk; Davidson said he needs spending offsets to get on board.

GOP leaders tried to win holdouts by floating more than $1 billion to enforce new proof‑of‑citizenship and voter ID rules in their election package and by promising a later budget bill to add priorities left out of the current plan. Many Republicans doubted a follow‑on bill would ever materialize, and leaders had not settled on what the new enforcement would actually do.

Even as the revolt brewed, Republicans narrowly passed a procedural rule 214-211 after last‑minute floor talks, setting up floor action on the budget measure and other items. The rule also lets the House attach the election package, which would require proof of citizenship to register for federal elections, to the annual defense bill.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources