Posted on 09/04/2024 8:41:34 AM PDT by RandFan
Speaker Mike Johnson is prepping a stopgap funding extension ahead of this month’s deadline that combines some red meat for conservatives with policies that lawmakers in both parties will likely find attractive.
According to sources familiar with the discussions, the Louisiana Republican’s plan would pair a six-month continuing resolution with House-passed legislation aimed at ensuring noncitizens can’t vote in federal elections.
The length of the stopgap measure, if enacted, would ensure that lawmakers won’t get jammed with a lame-duck omnibus package right before Christmas, while punting final spending decisions into the new year and a new Congress — possibly with more GOP leverage to shape the outcome.
In addition, the measure is expected to include a one-year extension of farm bill programs that would otherwise expire Sept. 30, since neither chamber’s multiyear reauthorization package has reached the floor and won’t be reconciled by the deadline.
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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a leader of the House Freedom Caucus and chief sponsor of the voting bill — nicknamed the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act,” or “SAVE Act” for short — said Tuesday he could get behind that sort of combo package.
“Yes, we’ll fund the government into March, even though it has a lot of crap … we don’t like,” Roy said on “Bannon’s War Room,” a podcast founded by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who’s now in prison on a contempt of Congress conviction. “But what we want to do is say we’re going to give [government spending] to President Trump’s administration to fix, and we’re going to demand that our elections are secure.”
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*Yawn*
When was the last time that Congress actually passed a series of appropriations bills? Whenever that was, the same things are being funded (at a higher percentage of course). How many of these were during the Democrat reign? probably a lot. Congress is so worthless when it’s led by Republicans
I have zero faith in Johnson. Except where caving in is concerned.
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