House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday canceled a scheduled vote on a stopgap funding bill that would have kept the government running for the next six months after more than a dozen of his Republican colleagues withdrew their support for the bill.

“We will continue to work on this whip,” Johnson said. “There will be no vote today because we are in the process of finding consensus here in Congress with narrow majorities.”

The Republican speaker and other Republican leaders in Congress expected up to 15 defections from their party members, according to NBC News. That was a sharp turnaround from Monday, when only two Republicans had promised to vote against the bill.

The spending proposal would have funded the government through March 2025, but was also tied to the SAVE Act, a bill that would require individuals to show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.

Democrats in Congress had repeatedly announced that they would vote against any spending plan that came with the SAVE Act. This meant that the bill would be doomed to failure in the Democratic-dominated Senate.

But former President Donald Trump said Republicans should not pass a budget without the SAVE Act. And if necessary, the Republican presidential candidate said, Republicans should be prepared to shut down the government.

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