"That’s the thing about the Republican Party, we’re not the collective so we’re gonna have different thoughts,” Owens said. “Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t, but that’s why we have to have a much bigger majority.

U.S. Congressional leaders on Sunday announced a short-term spending bill that would fund government agencies for the next three months, avoiding a potential government shutdown when the new budget year starts on October 1.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is again pushing for a vote on a funding patch to avoid a politically costly partial government shutdown, this time without election security legislation.