Posted on 11/11/2023 1:50:08 PM PST by RandFan
1) House Republicans announce a “laddered” CR to try to avoid a government shutdown next week
This is a multi-step approach.
2) All funding from the old stopgap bill is renewed automatically since there isn’t enough time to go to conference with the Senate before the deadline early next Saturday morning.
3) So the plan would be go to the first step of the ladder through January 19. This would fund transportation/housing, defense, agriculture and military construction in January. The other eight spending bills would face a deadline of February 2.
A) More on the GOP gambit to avert a shutdown. There are no cuts under this plan. And there is no aid to Israel in the bill.
Democrats and many moderate Republicans will not receive this well. They just want a temporary spending bill renewing all funding at the current levels.
B) Moreover, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wanted a CR at the FY ‘23 levels. Not the levels agreed to in the debt ceiling package over the spring.
A) Note that for all intents and purposes, Johnson unveiled a two-month CR. This is precisely what prompted Republicans to evict former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the Speaker’s suite. Only that was a 6-week CR.
B) This bill is written to the FY ‘23 spending levels. Not the levels agreed to by Biden/McCarthy in the debt limit accord in the spring.
Fox is told that the fallback position is a CR for the rest of the year if this effort fails.
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A) Document provided to Fox by a source on Johnson’s interim soending plan. Says therere is “no FISA deauthorization” in the bill. Says the bill provides “Breathing room for FISA reform.“
B) GOP document: “The bill does not include an extension of FISA 702 authorities so that the House can continue to build momentum for a FISA reform package that protects the privacy of Americans from government overreach and protects our national security.”
No aid for Israel and no FISA re-authorization either.
Happy with this, Freepers?
The Article V attempt for a Convention of States is much closer for a Balanced Budget Amendment than the other well known pursuit. So close that Congress introduced fake legislation (Gramham-Rudman) to prevent it from succeeding. With interest (interest!) on the national debt now past a trillion dollars, we need it now more than ever!
Speaker Johnson rolls out plan to avoid government shutdown, prevent ‘spending monstrosity’
Israel had received aid earlier in the month, so I’m fine with that.
“No aid for Israel and no FISA re-authorization either.”
You mean the unconstitutional FISA court that rubber stamps whatever the Feds want? That court?
No mention of Ukraine? Border?
Once again, it's 11:59pm when these 'leaders' act!!!!
Schumer and the SEnate are rolling their plan out. Ukraine and the border...The House already passed a border plan. It’s at the Senate. They won’t pass a Ukie package unless the border plan is signed sealed and delivered.
Not exactly.
McCarthy had months and months to work the funding bills, but he dawdled until the crisis was upon him. That's what prompted his eviction.
Johnson is stuck cleaning up McCarthy's mess. He's trying to minimize the use of CRs by "laddering" the spending into separate "clean" short-term CRs based on budget due dates for departments because there is no time for the back-and-forth of reconciliation committees between the two chambers.
This looks like a stop-gap plan to get past McCarthy's bungled budgets, in order to get to a place where regular order can start.
-PJ
Wasn’t Gaetz and the rest of the gop tired of Continuing Resolutions? Wasn’t that part of getting rid of the last young guns?
As one of the founders put it, “pork still with a little change of the sauce.”
Yes, Star Chamber
What a massive fustercluck we've become . . .
So in other words, instead of the deadlines to shut down the whole government (not really the whole government, but you know what I mean) they would just be dealing with deadlines to shut down one department at a time? If I’m understanding that correctly, then I think it’s a good move. It would prevent the phony hysterics about “shutting down the government” and should mean less pressure to cave.
I don’t see why the GOP doesn’t just go ahead and fold now and give the left everything they want in a spending bill. Because that is what is going to eventually happen. I’ve seen this play before and I know how it ends.
My hope is that the further out the dates go, the more proactive they can be to get a bill passed without resorting to a CR.
But we all have to recognize that Schumer is going to use the Rules for Radicals #4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules" against Speaker Johnson.
Schumer is going to reject each and every one of the department-specific budget bills while Jeffries keeps demanding omnibus bills from the minority, until the "government shutdown date" starts looming.
Then the LAAP-dog media like Pergram will dutifully report that Johnson is doing "precisely what prompted Republicans to evict" McCarthy, trying to foment dissent in the Republicans' slim majority. Then the rest of the media will get Capitol hallway interviews with people like Gaetz, Jordan, Donalds, Greene and Boebert pushing them to explain why this is different -- setting up their reporting of a "Republican hypocrisy narrative.
And all of this will have had nothing to do with what Johnson is actually trying to do.
-PJ
I hope things don’t play out as you describe and see no reason for them to do so, as long as Republicans are willing to call the Democrats’ bluff. I don’t think the public really cares that much about a shut down, and that in the past, it has served as little more than the excuse RINOs have used to cave.
Maybe 8 years ago, the MSM would have been able to damage Republicans over a shut down, but I think people are more savvy these days. And I think there are too many more important issues on peoples’ minds this time around for very many of them to buy into the hysterics.
I just know that the Democrats won't change their playbook until it starts hurting them. So far, this hasn't been hurting them.
-PJ
My opposition to the clean CR just announced by the Speaker to the
@HouseGOP cannot be overstated. Funding Pelosi level spending
& policies for 75 days - for future “promises.”
Johnson should be given the 2-3 months to start to return to
Regular Order.
This had best be the last CR. Take the 2 months to write the appropriate appropriations bills.
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