Vice President Vance delivered a closing pitch in favor of Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) government funding bill during the House GOP’s private conference meeting Tuesday, hours before the lower chamber is scheduled to vote on the measure.

Members said Vance argued that the six-month funding measure would allow the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to continue to slash federal programs and pause spending.

“That’s his No. 1 goal,” Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.), a GOP holdout, said of Vance urging Republicans to support the measure.

And Vance warned the GOP lawmakers that if the stopgap fails in the House, Republicans will be blamed for the shutdown, a source in the room told The Hill. But, if the bill clears the House and is blocked in the upper chamber, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will bear the burden of letting the lights turn off in Washington, Vance argued.

“If it passes and is signed into law, America will benefit!” the vice president added, according to the source.

The message came amid uncertainty about the continuing resolution’s (CR) fate in the House. A

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