Sources: GOP House leadership promised to pull cromnibus

I’m hearing from two sources, including one Republican lawmaker, that Representative Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.) provided one of the final, decisive votes needed to clear a crucial procedural hurdle because House leadership promised to pull the CRomnibus and replace it with a short-term continuing resolution that would push the entire funding debate into next year.

An aide to House Speaker John Boehner said he made no such pledge. Stutzman’s office did not reply immediately to a request for comment…

“The fact that the House has recessed tells me leadership is worried,” the House Republican source said, noting that they also had to recess during the summer border crisis fight — when a conservative revolt, rather than a Democratic one, forced them to modify their proposals. “That tells me that they are reevaluating,” the lawmaker suggested, with the likeliest options being whether to stick with the CRomnibus as written or move to a short-term continuing resolution.