US House Republicans on Friday effectively shot down a Senate effort to end a weeks-long budget standoff that has forced thousands of airport security staff to work without pay, likely extending the lapse in federal funding.
The speaker of the House, Republican Mike Johnson, blasted the Senate bill as a "joke" and said his side would introduce competing legislation that would fully fund Transportation Security Administration staff as well as immigration agents and Border Patrol personnel.
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