Hardline Republicans TANK vote to progress Speaker Mike Johnson's spending plan after Democrats helped him pass bill to punt government funding deadline to after the new year

House Republicans failed to advance a spending bill one day after Speaker Mike Johnson notched a win on a stopgap funding plan to avoid a government shutdown. 

The rule to advance the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill as well as Iranian sanction legislation failed after 19 Republicans voted against it. The group mostly consisted of hardline Republicans, along with four moderates from New York. 

The rule failed 198-225 vote, blocking the chamber from considering the measures.

The House is now headed home for an extended Thanksgiving break. 

'This place is like a pressure cooker,' Johnson said Wednesday, before former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., may or have gotten in a physical altercation, Oversight Chair James Comer called Democrat Jared Moskowitz, Fla., a 'smurf' and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Rep. Darrell Issa has no balls and called him a 'p***y.'

After Johnson bought himself an extra couple months to work through the appropriations process, Wednesday's failure to pass the rule to begin the debate on one spending bill could spell trouble for that process. 

This is the fourth rule vote to fail since the start of the 118th Congress in January, showing just how free-wheeling this Republican conference is. Before this year, a rule vote has only failed eight times in the last 20 years. 

In past congressional terms, the party in power is typically responsible for passing the rule. Members of the majority party often vote for the rule even if they oppose the final bill.  

Conservative Republicans were upset that they did not get votes on their amendments - and also at the continuing resolution, CR, that passed on Tuesday and will fund the government through the new year at fiscal year 2023 levels. 

The CR passed with more Democratic votes than Republican, but buys Congress more time for each chamber to pass appropriations bills then negotiate them together. 

Members of the Freedom Caucus said they opposed the CJS appropriations bill because it did not include provisions to defund the FBI headquarters and or what they called an 'unconstitutional' gun registry, referring to a new ATF database. 

'We are done with the failure theater here,' said Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry. 'This bill is very, very weak.' 

Still, the conservative hardliners stopped short of criticizing Johnson personally, offering him leeway as he's only been on the job three weeks.  

Instead, they blamed the House appropriators who write spending bills. 'The appropriators are holding this process hostage,' said Perry. 

'We want to support our speaker and bringing the change that needs to be brought on behalf of American people,' said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va. 

On Johnson, Luna said: 'We like him a lot. He's a nice guy, but we're gonna make sure that he follows through on what you said he was gonna do.' 

 'Speaker Johnson is widely supported in the conference,' said Good. 'He's admired for his integrity.' 

There's a question of how long that good will for the new speaker will last.  

'That is performance based,' Good told DailyMail.com. 'We expect him to keep his word that he will not do another CR. We expect him to keep his word that we're gonna pass our remaining five spending bills, that he's gonna put tough negotiators on the conference committees with the Senate, that he's gonna fight for the best possible outcome, that we're gonna change the process next year. 

'Our support for him is contingent upon that.' 

No one is talking about bringing forth a motion to vacate, like when McCarthy put a CR on the House floor. 

'That's a ridiculous question, he's been on the job 20 days,' Perry said of the possibility. 

Conservatives were also upset that the bill to consider an Iran bill under closed rule. That bill would have directed sanctions on any foreign entity that facilitates the transfer of $6 billion in Iranian assets currently being held in a Qatar bank. 

'Today, they tried to pass a closed rule on Iran, which while it was a bill that was targeted towards the $6 billion, it paled in comparison to amendments that we have that would have actually checked Iran the way they need to be checked,' Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told reporters. 

He called for amendments to stop the Biden administration's authority to waive sanctions on entities that do business with Iran and to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). 

'What on earth is going on?,' said Roy. 'Israel is under attack. And we're funding through the CR yesterday Hamas through dollars that go to the United Nations through UNRWA that is unacceptable.'