House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters before the debate and vote on additional aid to Israel at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters before the debate and vote on additional aid to Israel at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Biden administration and other Democrats are planning a proposal from House GOP leaders for a two-part government spending bill that would fund certain agencies at one time and others at another time. On Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the plan — a highly unusual structure for a spending stopgap bill — and quickly faced opposition from both a handful of House Republicans and the White House. “This proposal is just a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. If there is no new agreement, the federal government will run out of money on Friday. Johnson’s preliminary spending plan would extend funding for veterans programs, transportation, housing, agriculture and energy through Jan. 19, while spending for other agencies, including the Defense Department and State Department, would be extended through Feb. 2. “This two-part continuing resolution is a necessary bill to put House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative victories,” Johnson said said in a tweet. “The bill will put an end to the absurd holiday omnibus tradition of huge, overloaded spending bills introduced just before the Christmas break.” The proposal leaves out funding requested by the Biden administration for Israel, Ukraine and the border between the USA and Mexico are ignored. Johnson’s plan faces a difficult prospect in Congress. Republicans hold a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, and some of the conference’s more hardline members have already announced their opposition to the proposal. Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, rejected Johnson’s proposal The proposal’s passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate is also unlikely. White House officials told NPR that the Office of Management and Budget has already begun warning federal agencies to prepare for a government shutdown. The budget dispute comes less than a month after Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, took the top job in the House GOP following the ouster of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Not all messages on the site express the site’s point of view, but we automatically transmit and translate these messages using programmatic technology on the site, rather than by a human editor
2023-11-12 19:37:32
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