Posted on 02/28/2024 4:39:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Congressional leaders in the House and Senate have reached a deal on a spate of appropriations bills, clearing the way for a short-term spending patch that would extend funding deadlines further into March.
Appropriators finalized the agreement on Wednesday, two sources told the Washington Examiner, just three days before the government is set to enter a partial shutdown. The proposal would maintain the two-pronged deadlines Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has advocated but would extend the dates slightly to give lawmakers time to finalize the legislative text and bring them to the floor for votes. <
“We are in agreement that Congress must work in a bipartisan manner to fund our government,” congressional leaders said in a joint statement on Wednesday announcing the deal. “To give the House and Senate Appropriations Committees adequate time to execute on this deal in principle, including drafting, preparing report language, scoring and other technical matters, and to allow members 72 hours to review, a short-term continuing resolution to fund agencies through March 8 and the 22 will be necessary, and voted on by the House and Senate this week.”
The House is expected to vote on the CR at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, a source familiar with the vote schedule told the Washington Examiner. If the bill passes, the House will be sent home for an early recess and Friday votes will be canceled.
Under the agreement, the deadline for six appropriations bills — Agriculture; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; Transportation, Housing and Urban Development; Energy and Water; Interior and Environment; and Commerce, Justice, and Science — would be moved to March 8. The remaining six, which are among the more controversial, would be extended to March 22.
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Vacate The Johnson.
How about a amendment that states that the government must have a yearly balanced budget.
Getting to a budget at all, is what has to be done first. That is what Speaker Johnson is pushing hard on. Notice the insistence on a written bill and 72 hours for members to read and analyse it before voting.
These procedures are required by law, and have been ignored for years since Obama weaponized the continuing resolution process.
Johnson is working hard to bring the process back to where it was before 2008, at the minimum.
We need to give him a larger majority to work with. Ideally, we also need to take the Senate. Both are very doable in 2024.
“short term.” Oh how lucky we are.
Vacate The Johnson
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i agree.
we cant reward weakness.
if he cant stand now
he will never stand
kick johnson to the curb
rinse and repeat
till we get some one
who wont fold .
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i agree.
we cant tolerate weakness.
if he cant stand now
he will never stand
kick johnson to the curb
rinse and repeat
till we get some one
who wont fold .
.
There is a surprise.
Ridiculous...
Voters love pork, lots and lots of it.
a fight is never won by being weaker than your opponent.
Sh........t!
Johnson’s doing about as good as can be expected, with such a slim majority. He’s herding cats.
No. They will just raise taxes to “balance” it. Instead, they should only be allowed to spend a set percentage (10% ???) of our accumulated income. That would solve the insanity. And no more omnibus spending.
The extensions are getting shorter, one week and three weeks.
With Bidenflation, if spending is held at last year’s level, it is a cut. The key still is the short duration.
EC
Shut the f-ing bloated worthless federal gub mint down and few would notice
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