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A procedural move to send the government funding bill back to its original committee failed in the House by a narrow margin. This was one of the final procedural steps before the House passed the bill to fund the federal government through September 2025.
This vote was on a 'motion to recommit' H.R. 1968, a bill that funds the U.S. federal government for the remainder of the 2025 fiscal year. The bill, a full-year continuing resolution, keeps government agencies operational at existing funding levels and extends critical health programs, such as those for community health centers and diabetes research, to prevent a shutdown. In the House of Representatives, a motion to recommit is one of the final procedural hurdles before a bill is passed. Under current rules, this motion is largely a formality used to express opposition or delay a vote by sending the bill back to the committee that wrote it. If successful, it effectively stalls or kills the bill's progress toward becoming law. The motion failed narrowly with 213 votes in favor and 216 against. This vote was notable because both Democrats and Republicans were split, with roughly half of each party voting on each side. Because the motion failed, the House was able to move immediately to a final vote on the funding bill itself, which ultimately passed and was later signed into law.
Immediately following the failure of this motion, the House held a final vote on the bill itself, which passed and was eventually sent to the Senate.
OPEN BILL →Democrats. Democrats were nearly evenly divided, with 101 voting to send the bill back to committee and 115 voting to move forward.
Republicans. Republicans were also split, with 110 supporting the motion and 108 opposing it.
A procedural move to send the government funding bill back to its original committee failed in the House by a narrow margin.
This was one of the final procedural steps before the House passed the bill to fund the federal government through September 2025.
A motion to recommit is a procedural tool used by the minority party to try and send a bill back to a committee, which would delay or stop its passage. Since 2021, these motions have been simplified to a straight vote on sending the bill back without specific instructions to change the text, making it a purely procedural hurdle.
Immediately following the failure of this motion, the House held a final vote on the bill itself, which passed and was eventually sent to the Senate.
This was an unusually split vote where neither party voted as a unified block, resulting in a bipartisan majority that rejected the motion.
Democrats were nearly evenly divided, with 101 voting to send the bill back to committee and 115 voting to move forward.
Republicans were also split, with 110 supporting the motion and 108 opposing it.
The single independent member voted against the motion.