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... Why it matters: This caps 10 excruciating days for Johnson. At each step, he's insisted the inevitable wasn't inevitable. No one bought it.

- - - Johnson spoke with Republican appropriators about drafting a "clean" three-month funding bill, Axios learned this afternoon.

- - - The speaker hasn't publicly endorsed the three-month plan, which the White House and Senate Democrats always favored.

- - - But he's inching toward the outcome many Senate Republicans privately said was coming: A spending bill through November that didn't include a GOP voting proposal to require proof of citizenship to vote.

Johnson's six-month stopgap plus the voting legislation failed yesterday.

Zoom in: Axios reported on Wednesday that Johnson has a Plan B -- but he wouldn't share it. That's still the case.

- - - Into the void stepped Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who told reporters Thursday ...