GOP law­mak­ers wres­tle with emer­gency Secret Ser­vice fund­ing amid gov­ern­ment shut­down fight

House Repub­li­cans are toy­ing with the idea of attach­ing addi­tion­al U.S. Secret Ser­vice (USSS) funds to a short-term spend­ing patch aimed at avoid­ing an Oct. 1 par­tial gov­ern­ment shutdown.Speaker Mike John­son, R‑La., is tee­ing up a vote Wednes­day evening on his plan to avert a shut­down, a six-month spend­ing patch called a con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tion (CR), which is being paired with a mea­sure to require proof of cit­i­zen­ship for vot­er registration.It’s like­ly to fail, giv­en sig­nif­i­cant GOP oppo­si­tion to any kind of CR and Democ­rats’ oppo­si­tion to the Safe­guard­ing Amer­i­can Vot­er Eli­gi­bil­i­ty (SAVE) Act.Multiple House Repub­li­cans who spoke with Fox News Dig­i­tal Wed …