The election looms, but first lawmakers face another deadline to keep government open and funded.

They have just under two weeks to go, and tonight the House of Representatives is taking risk.

Voting on a government funding patch with controversial election reform

attached to the bill.

That combination is expected to fail.

And for now, Republicans say they don't have a backup plan that could garner enough votes to pass.

Lisa Desjardin joins us now. So Lisa, where are we with a possible shutdown?

All right, September 30th, there needs to be funding passed by then or we would have a shutdown.

That seems like a long time away, but actually in congressional world that means just this week

or next week to get that funding passed.

So let's take a look at the House floor right now. They're in a

vote series. This is not the actual vote on the continuing resolution to

fund government. That's coming up soon. But what we expect to happen tonight is

it will be a close vote and we expect this patch suggested by House Speaker Mike Johnson for six months to fail.

And that is because in part it is attached to the Save Act, which is a piece of legislation dealing with voting.

Now, in this country, it is illegal to vote if you're a non-citizen.

There are studies and there are many debunkings of the idea that there is any problem with non-citizen voting.

It's a miniscule number that's ever been proven.

It's not a significant issue, but Republicans want this to pass, some of them, to require proof

of citizenship in order to register to vote.

These two things together have meant that this patch in funding is likely to fail and Republicans

right now on that do not have a plan B.

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