A day before a potential government shutdown, the U.S. House rejected a plan backed by President-elect Trump that would fund operations and suspend the debt ceiling. House Speaker Mike Johnson defended the plan as voting took place."This is how the lawmaking is done," Johnson said. "It's a long process. Sometimes it takes a while to reach consensus, but we're going to do the right thing here tonight."Many Republicans are placing the blame on Democrats for the bill's failure, but three dozen Republicans also joined Democrats in voting Thursday's bill down, 174-235.Ahead of the vote, California Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin, said House Speaker Johnson shared some of the blame."I'm absolutely opposed to a shutdown. It's something that we cannot let happen. Frankly, I'm not especially happy with the Republican leadership for letting us get this close," Kiley told KCRA 3. "We should have had a bill to keep the government running passed a lot sooner."The timing of the introduction of the legislation added to Kiley's frustration. "As it was, we had a massive piece of legislation that was over 1,500 pages that was released late at night and then we were expected to vote on it 24 hours later," he said. "It didn't just keep the government running, which would only have taken a couple pages, but threw together all of these different policies that — maybe some were good, maybe some were bad, but you barely even have time to read the bill." Kiley said the move brought them "needlessly" close to a shutdown. "I'm continuing to advocate for us to just take care of what we need to take care of, get the government funded, avoid a shutdown and then we could attend to other priorities," he said. After KCRA 3 spoke with Kiley, the new proposal had whittled down the bill to 116 pages, dropping a number of add-ons. Kiley voted to pass it on Thursday afternoon, but the vote ultimately failed.Kiley was hopeful they would come to a resolution, particularly ahead of the holidays."We can't have people going without paychecks, we can't have our troops going without paychecks. We can't have people losing access to public services — at Christmas time, no less," he said. "I'm hoping that we'll see an expeditious resolution of this matter before government funding runs out at the end of the day tomorrow, and then we can move on with a lot of pressing priorities."See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter