Speaker Says House Won’t Return to Ensure Troops Get Paid (1)

Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed Democrats’ pleas to call the House back into session and ensure troops get paid Oct. 15 if the government is still shut down.

House Democrats “are clamoring to get back here and have another vote, because some of them want to get on record and say that we’re paying troops,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday. “We already had that vote. It’s called the CR,” he added, referring to the stopgap spending bill the House passed with Republicans and just one Democrat.

Democratic Reps. Gabe Vasquez (N.M.) and Derek Tran (Calif.) will send a letter to Johnson this ...