Acknowledging the one GOP “grandstander” holdout, Vice President J.D. Vance addressed House Republicans on Tuesday, pressing them to pass their “clean” continuing resolution to keep the government funded through the end of this fiscal year at last year’s levels.

That first year of the Trump administration spending plan would be at the level of the last year of President Joe Biden’s administration — a spending level that was fine to Democrats then — but Democrats now say they will all vote against it unilaterally, ostensibly voting against their own spending levels.

Vance’s push was “very well-received,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Politico leaving the private meeting before addressing the weekly House GOP news conference Tuesday.

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