2y ago

Speaker Johnson navigates 'mission impossible' to avoid shutdown, without clear plan

www.npr.org /2023/11/10/1211830728/speaker-johnson-navigates-mission-impossible-to-avoid-shutdown-without-clear-pla

Congress has a week to avoid a government shutdown. But the new speaker is facing familiar GOP divisions trying to pass his party's own spending bills and still hasn't decided on a short term bill.

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Yes, mission impossible... Not counting the other 250 odd years the government has managed to fund itself
- Republicans love to be drama queens about spending
Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Dan Meuser suggested some GOP members are trying to use the annual spending bills to accomplish every policy goal.
"Many of those who are standing in the way of getting these appropriations bills through are coming up with, you know, minuscule or small parts of it that are that are just just blowing the whole thing up."
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Does he know what party he's in?
- Don't stop him. Let's wait and see...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Johnson pulled the Financial Services and General Government funding measure on Thursday, after moderate members of his conference opposed a provision in the bill that would have overruled Washington, D.C.'s abortion law.
One of the members opposed to the bill, Rep. John Duarte of California, pointed to Tuesday's election results in several states showing voter pushback to Republican efforts to restrict abortion rights.
After a proposed amendment to bar any funding for the building failed, conservatives including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan threatened to vote against final passage of the bill.
As the party tries to sort out its larger budget disagreements, Johnson is trying to put together a short-term spending plan — known as a continuing resolution — in order to keep the federal government open beyond November 17 and buy time for lawmakers negotiations.
In October, shortly after then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., relied on Democratic votes to pass a short-term funding bill, he was ousted by a small group of House Republicans who were upset with the plan.
The top House Democrat, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, has said that his party will only support a so-called "clean" continuing resolution — a bill that extends government funding at current levels with no additional provisions.
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