Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy boasted that the House was on the verge of passing all 12 annual appropriations measures, something that hasn’t happened since 2004.

“We will pass them with a majority in Congress. I believe the Senate should do the same, with a simple majority of the Senate,” McCarthy told reporters. “The Senate should waive the 60 rule and pass it with a simple majority and take it to the President’s desk.”

But McCarthy’s proposal, which he called for also in 2015, was immediately rejected by the top GOP leaders in both the Senate and the House.