Wolf Blitzer mixed with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) Thursday evening while the House was in the process of default pass a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown this weekend.

The bill required a two-thirds majority to pass because the President Mike Johnson (R-LA) expedited the resolution instead of sending it to the House Rules Committee first. A day earlier, Johnson scrapped another financing bill after Elon Musk and president-elect Donald Trump came out against the measure. Asset supported the most recent version and urged Republicans to vote for it.

As the vote took place, Lawler joined The crisis room on CNN and informed Blitzer that he had voted for the bill. Lawler criticized Democrats for not joining with Republicans to help him surpass the two-thirds threshold. It failed by a vote of 174 to 235, with 38 Republicans voting against it.

“But Congressman, as you well know, a bipartisan agreement was reached between the president and Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House,” Blitzer told Lawler. “There was a bipartisan agreement that would have passed until Elon Musk and Donald Trump objected to it yesterday.”

“Respectfully, you don’t know if this would have passed for sure because it was never introduced,” Lawler responded.

“There was bipartisan support,” the host replied.

Later, the two had this exchange:

BLITZER: Let’s just point out, Congressman, that right now, if you take a look at the roll call, 31 of your fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives are currently voting against this current bill. So how can you say it’s the Democrats’ fault when you are in the majority?

LAWLER: I love you, Wolf, but you need to stop trying to defend the Democrats here. The fact is that a number of Republicans never voted for a permanent resolution, nor for raising the debt ceiling. This bill requires two-thirds of the House, not an absolute majority. You need two thirds. So the fact that you have Democrats who normally would vote for this, refuse to do so, not because they don’t agree with the proper (continuing) resolution, nor because they are not of agree with disaster relief, nor because they do not agree with helping our farmers. No, they are doing it because they are unhappy that raising the debt ceiling is no longer being considered as leverage in future negotiations. That’s why they’re upset.

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