House Will Vote for Spending Bill to Avoid Shut Down Friday Night
Voting could start as early as 10 AM ET.
So, will the House pass a spending bill to avoid a shutdown tonight? Who knows.
I’ll update this post as necessary.
Rep. Thomas Massie said that Johnson agreed to split the bill into separate bill. But then…
This was in fact correct when you tweeted it, but speaker Johnson flipped his decision after the meeting when he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries and realized he could get Democrat votes to pass all the legislation as one bill.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 20, 2024
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House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed the government wouldn’t shut down. From Fox News:
“We will not have a government shutdown and we will meet our obligations for our farmers who need aid, for the disaster victims all over the country, and for making sure that military and essential services, and everyone who relies upon the federal government for a paycheck is paid over the holidays,” Johnson told reporters.
He said there was a “unified Republican conference” in the House and “unanimous agreement in the room that we need to move forward.”
“I expect that we will be proceeding forward,” he said.
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At 2:24 PM ET, Politico said the House Republicans voted on a fourth spending bill. However, they must rely on Democrats to vote for a bill without a debt limit measure.
Suspending the debt limit in the third bill caused many Republicans to vote against it.
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Fox News reported that the Republicans will meet at 12:30 PM ET.
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Speaker Mike Johnson said they have a Plan C.
Speaker Johnson Confirms: House to Vote on Plan C to Avoid Shutdown
“Yeah, yeah, we have a plan. We’re expecting votes this morning, so you all stay tuned. We’ve got a plan.”
Johnson did not provide further details on the proposal. pic.twitter.com/DVquZjvBOW
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) December 20, 2024
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According to Fox News, votes could happen at 10 AM ET:
A source told Fox News on Friday that House lawmakers have reached a “temporary fix” to avoid a government shutdown.
The potential deal could keep the government funded until members return to Capitol Hill in the new year.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said a vote on the matter could happen as early as 10 a.m. Friday.
“We’re expecting votes this morning,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said.
Sources also told Fox News’ Lawrence Jones that President-elect Donald Trump is making phone calls Friday regarding the spending bill impasse.
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Trump making phone calls in the background–good. Keep it that way, in the background. Same for Elon, in the background only. No talking in public until you are assured of a W..
I very much doubt Elon is making phone calls to anyone in the back ground. His contribution here is providing the tool to the people to see what lawmakers are trying to pass and allowing that tool to be exploited to its fullest potential WITHOUT filters from the media or democrats.
I hope you are right. No pol of any stripe likes being strong armed by a billionaire…not that I know what that’s like..
Only with an open wallet
You’re defaming filters.
Those are marxist tyrants…
Raising or abolishing the debt ceiling is not a win
I sure hope the funding for studying shrimp on treadmills is still included.
/must I?
Only if there is cocktail sauce.
Were Kerry still in office, we know what brand the cocktail sauce would be.
I love John Kerry jokes.
John Kerry walks into a bar…..What’s so funny? John Kerry doesn’t walk anywhere. It’s either limo, helicopter or private jet.
“John Kerry and a horse walk into a bar. The bartender says, ‘why the long face?'”
A spending bill at the current level until the new administration takes over since the priorities are going to be radically different is what should have been done. I’m surprised Trump didn’t talk with Johnson about this.
IMO, Johnson was trying to negotiate the debt ceiling that Trump wants. Because of that, he kept giving up more and more trying to get that agreement.
There seems to be, according to American Thinker, a valid reason to not pass a stop gap bill so the federal register stops putting up “midnight regulations”.
I don’t think the Country will be harmed by a shutdown. Put separate bills out to address the immediate needs only
I read the American Thinker post referencing this. I agree with you.
They could have avoid all of this if they had made the September CR go for more than 3 months.
The plan by Chuck-the-Schmuck was to have a Christmas tree during the “lame duck” session.
Everybody knew it back in September.
Ending the Biden Administration with a government shutdown does seem appropriate, however.
If it is true that Jill Biden wants to burn it all down, a Biden “veto” may be in the offing.
>>If it is true that Jill Biden wants to burn it all down, a Biden “veto” may be in the offing.<<
I hope it is. I hope Joe vetos any Continuing Spending Resolution that the House and Senate might pass. To be honest, I derive no positive benefits from the federal government and wouldn't miss them at all if they shutdown. So shut 'em all down. Permanently if I had any say in the matter. So please Joe, get out the veto stamp and veto any spending bills that come out of the Congress.
My how I would love to see Chuckles get the Hairy Reed ‘exercise band’ treatment. The vile schmuck certainly deserves it.
Johnson will not survive this as Speaker. He’s shown his true colors as a weak leader.
The rules have changed but many in Washington don’t seem to realize it yet.
Trump means business. When he says entire agencies will cease to exist, I believe him.
Johnson will survive because he has the full support of Trump:
WASHINGTON — A triumphant President-elect Donald Trump huddled with House Republicans before their leadership elections Wednesday and threw his support behind Speaker Mike Johnson, a key ally, as the GOP prepares for unified control of government next year.
Endorsing Johnson, R-La., for two more years as speaker, Trump said he is “with him all the way,” using such words as “tremendous” and “terrific” to describe him, according to Republican sources in the closed-door meeting at the Hyatt Regency hotel near the Capitol.
You already posted this old crap once before. Ever have an original thought?
Quit upvoting yourself.
Scheduling the vote for a Friday night tells you all you need to know about the merits of the resolution…
I am for a government shutdown. It will keep the Biden Whitehouse from sending more taxpayer money out the door.
Nancy Mace had a good suggestion last night on Fox News.
She says they ought to pass a series of “one issue” bills, which would force everyone to take a stand on each part of the budget, one by one.
No more hiding pork in, for instance, a bill that funds Social Security payments for the elderly.
Maybe they should pass a law FORCING anything that involves funding to be done in a separate bill ONLY covering that one issue being funded?
Bills that are only one page long.
Longer than that, put it in its own bill.
where’s the infamous 72 hour rule many of them promote?
It can be waived by a vote of the majority. Though if they come back with what is being reported 3 separate bills;
1. Clean CR that just extends current funding a couple months with no add ons
2. Disaster relief bill
3. AG bill
Then the reason for having the 72 hour period is largely moot. It was put in place to allow time to read and digest the gigantic omnibus or as last night CRomnibus bills. The members can easily read these before voting.
They’ll all vote for a 30% wage increase
Oh , the sacrifice
If Kamala Harris had not spent all her campaign money they could have given everyone in congress a 100% raise for the next 100 years.
Followed next year by a 20% increase to make up the difference from 40%….
Since 2009, salaries have remained at $174,000 annually due to Congress voting against automatic cost-of-living adjustments every year since then.
38 morons who stabbed Trump in the front and the back last night are 100% responsible for any hidden poison pill in this package.
Nope, and no partial credit for attempting to shift blame off the establishment big spenders. The people to blame are those who failed to use regular order, delayed to the last minute, released a nearly 1600 page pork laden bill with all sorts of giveaways to the d/prog.
They and you are trying to run the same extortion scam they have repeatedly used; ‘pass this now or the world ends and if you oppose it you’re the problem’.
They could pass ONLY a clean CR then send it to the Senate on the way out of town. It isn’t up to the HoR to worry that the d/prog controlled Senate kill a clean CR or if Biden chooses to veto it.
For.that matter if you’re so worried about potential poison pills being included to attract d/prog votes to pass something…. then if a clean CR doesn’t pass just adjourn. Don’t allow another vote on anything until the next Congress is seated.
People need to read and re-read that WSJ article. It doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t know, and it is late, but that really doesn’t matter now. It vivdly shows how degraded the federal government has become, and how urgent the situation has become.
It is reminiscent of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Everyone knew that the USSR was a complete mess, but it took Chernobyl to make the realization unavoidable. Gorbachev surrendered because he realized that his society was built on lies from top to bottom, and that there was no point in trying to preserve it.
We aren’t there yet. The Republicans desperately need to realize that the hour is growing late, and that federal government can be saved only with intelligence and unity of purpose and execution.
This cannot be done all at once. There is enormous work to be done, and to let some Freedom Caucus stand in the way will be doomsday. They need to swallow the razor blade now, and get to work next year. Do they realize the depth of the crisis? I’m not at all sure they do, but can only hope.
I just love the Myth of “The Government Shutdown”. 83% of the government still runs during a Shutdown.