I don’t think this is accurate.
On Ted Cruz’s podcast today he said they needed 215(or something close to that) to pass. We were like 38 votes shy at 170-something.
They basically need all R’s except one or two to vote in a block to get it passed. But even if they do, the Senate would have to pass it and R’s don’t have the votes there.
I don’t see what is so hard about saying...”We tried to pass the exact same govt funding that we had for the past 6 months and the Dems decided they would rather shut the govt. down.”
The Republicans act like whooped dogs and are too afraid to do anything because the media might call them “mean”. That is why I call them the “Republican’ts”
My understanding is that the 2/3rds vote in the House is needed under House rules because these bills are being drafted outside the normal committee approval process. The GOP can circumvent the two-thirds requirement, but it requires some kind of procedural move that would take a day or two beyond the midnight deadline.