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The appropriations package passed Tuesday by a vote of 227-194, with no House Republicans voting in favor of the measure.
HR 2745 is the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriation
HR 3055 is cited by the press release but is titled Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations. It passed 227-194 as the release states.
Why was this vote strictly divided along partisan lines?
It's fairly clear that most Republicans voted against it, but these statements from various Republican congressmen contradict the statement given above that no House Republicans voted in favor:
Rep. Zeldin Effort to Fully Fund Bulletproof Vest Program Included in Funding Bill
Reps. Hice, Allen Secure Full Funding for Cyber Instructional Facility at Fort Gordon
Additionally there are others that reflect positive sentiment toward the bill, but none actually state their intention to vote for the bill or not, so your quote could be accurate.
As far as the reasons given to oppose the bill is "irresponsible spending" and lack of spending on the wall, as stated by Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R) from California on his website:
LaMalfa said: “This spending package offered by House Democrats is an irresponsible and unrealistic use of taxpayer dollars. With no budget agreement seemingly in sight, these bills raise spending by $176 billion above current budget caps, which could lead to disastrous cuts to our military down the road. These bills willfully ignore our worsening border crisis by prohibiting funding to build any sort of physical barrier at the southern border. This package also prevents the Administration from recovering funding from the failed California High-Speed Rail project – a refund that I have introduced a bill to initiate – despite the fact that this project somehow grows more expensive and less practical by the day. I hope our colleagues in the Senate can offer a far more realistic and bipartisan appropriations package than what we voted on today.”
For a general discussion of this issue from various congressional offices, please see this site.
This bill is to make appropriations for the Commerce and Justice Departments, NASA, the NSF, and other agencies.
In an appropriations bill such as this, usually the reason the minority party will vote against is because it contains something they don't like, or it doesn't contain something that they want.
For example, the last GOP speaker, Will Hurd (R-TX), spoke against the bill on the grounds that it doesn't provide what he sees as sufficient funding to deal with a backlog of immigration cases in the courts.
You can read the transcripts of other debate speakers on C-SPAN.
