Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Thursday the upper chamber is poised to pass a stopgap funding bill next week to avoid a partial government shutdown, though some hardline Republicans have been anxious to force one.
“Unfortunately, it has become clear that it will take more than a week to complete the appropriations process,” Schumer, 73, said on the Senate floor days after announcing the $1.66 trillion spending framework deal with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La). .).
Schumer went on to call out “hard-right extremists” in the lower house who he said were trying to “bully their colleagues” to force some government departments to go dark at 11:59pm on Jan 19 – and celebrated the “compromise” he and Johnson reached.
Schumer said he would file a temporary funding bill shutdown on Thursday, setting up a vote on Jan. 16, when the Senate returns after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Thursday the upper house is preparing to pass a stopgap funding bill next week to avoid a partial government shutdown. REUTERS House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) walked out of his office on Thursday after meeting with hardline Republicans and said he had made “no commitment” about rejecting the spending deal. AP
The top funding package has listed House conservatives, with Freedom Caucus Representatives. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and others urged Johnson in his office Thursday to pull out of the deal with Schumer.
The deal, which will extend through the end of fiscal year 2024 on Sept. 30, allocates $888 billion in defense spending and $704 billion in non-defense discretionary spending — but adds another $69 billion in other spending, making it more expensive than last year’s debt ceiling bill. .
The speaker emerged from the meeting saying he had “no commitment” and was still talking to different factions in his conference about options.
On Wednesday, Johnson celebrated the deal in an interview with Fox News, touting his record as a “hardline conservative leader” committed to “cutting spending.”
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), another member of the Freedom Caucus, called the deal “terrible” on Sunday after it was announced — and did not rule out the option of voting Johnson out. AP
“We are trying to go back to 12 appropriations bills instead of commanding and controlling with an omnibus spending bill. We’ve done it,” he said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” referring to Congress passing two funding bills before the holiday recess that ends on Jan. 19 and Feb. 2.
“We added another $16 billion in cuts. We took $10 billion from the IRS slush fund, another $6.1 billion from the COVID slush fund. This is a big priority for Democrats. We have added it in.”
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), another member of the Freedom Caucus, called the deal “terrible” on Sunday after it was announced — and did not rule out the option of moving to vacate Johnson’s speakership if changes are not made.
With the recent departure of multiple Republicans, including former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the GOP’s House majority has shrunk to just two votes, leaving Johnson little room to leverage in negotiations with his conference.
Senate Republicans and Democrats are also discussing a $110 billion national security supplement that would fund the security of Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the US borders. Reuters
The speaker also told Fox News he was “disappointed” that the spending deal did not “go far enough,” but noted Democratic control of the White House and Senate had limited his ability to secure cuts.
“I mean, this is not a Hail Mary pass that I want to throw to win the game. It’s, as we say in football, it’s yard by yard, inch by inch, three yards and a cloud of dust,” Johnson said.
Senate Republicans and Democrats are separately debating a $110 billion supplemental national security spending bill that would fund aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and improve US border security, but have yet to announce a deal.
“Right now, the Senate is close to an opportunity to finally do something meaningful to address the Biden administration’s border crisis,” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday on the Senate floor.
“Our work this month is the clearest test of America’s credibility as a global superpower, as a leader of allies and as a nation capable of upholding our own sovereignty. The Senate should not fail this test.”
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