The House unexpectedly rejected a bill allowing the Smithsonian Institution to build a women’s history museum on the National Mall Thursday after six Republicans joined Democrats in opposition to the measure.
The failed vote was a stunning addition to a day of setbacks for Republicans, coming just hours after the Senate went home for recess without finishing a party-line immigration budget bill they’d hoped to pass due to intraparty turmoil. House GOP leadership also delayed a vote Democrats forced seeking to rein in President Donald Trump’s Iran war powers because absences meant Democrats could’ve succeeded in passing it.
The women’s ...