“After nine Republicans joined all Democrats to tank a procedural vote Tuesday afternoon, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had a novel solution: everyone go home,” NOTUS reports.

Said Johnson: “We can’t have any further action on the floor this week.”

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), on X: “So let me get this right. They opposed proxy voting for pregnant women because they said they should be in DC for work, and their response is to send us home and not work at all?”

The House Republican leadership is going to add the budget resolution to the rule that failed earlier today — and try to pass it again next week, Punchbowl News reports.

“So they will force lawmakers to choose between advancing Trump’s agenda and proxy voting — in the leadership’s thinking. The leadership really wants to kill proxy voting for new and expectant parents.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) prevailed in a high-stakes rules showdown against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), paving the way for the House to allow proxy voting for new and expectant parents, Punchbowl News reports.

Nine House Republicans joined with all Democrats on a rule vote, which sought to table Luna’s discharge petition to allow proxy voting for new and expectant mothers and new fathers to vote by proxy.

New York Times: “In using strong-arm tactics to try to block the measure, Mr. Johnson was attempting an extraordinary use of the speaker’s power to prevent the chamber from even considering a measure backed by half its members. But he failed to peel off enough Republican votes to block the proposal, instead receiving a public rebuke at the hands of members of both parties.”

The Hill: House Republicans torpedo Johnson effort to block proxy voting for new parents.