House Funding Bill Passes Thanks To Dems
Trouble, nonetheless, looms for Johnson and his fractious House GOP conference
Democrats stepped in to save the day on Tuesday, helping House Speaker Mike Johnson avert a government shutdown despite opposition from Republicans in the Freedom Caucus who opposed the bill due to a lack of offsetting spending cuts.
According to Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman, more Democrats voted for it than Republicans.
Rs: Y: 127 N:93
Ds: Y: 209 No: 2
🚨NEWS — The House has passed the stopgap funding bill.
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BUT — Democrats saved him. More Democrats voted for this than Republicans.
Rs: Y: 127 N:93
Ds: Y: 209 No: 2Dangerous territory for a GOP speaker. See McCarthy, Kevin.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 14, 2023
The legislation now heads to the Senate, where both Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gave it their full-throated support as noted earlier.
According to a Tuesday statement by Schumer, the Senate will work to pass it “as soon as possible,” after which it will head to President Joe Biden’s desk for a signature.
Along the lines of what Sherman said;
Passage of the legislation marks an early legislative achievement for Johnson, who was elected to the Speakership less than a month ago after three weeks of standstill in the House following former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) removal from the role.
That ouster was caused in large part by McCarthy’s decision to put a “clean” continuing resolution on the floor and pass it with help from Democrats — similar to Johnson’s course of action this week.
But hardline conservatives said they would give Johnson some breathing room this time around — despite opposing his stopgap bill — citing his nascent Speakership.
“He’s had two weeks to pass it; his predecessor had since January and then he jammed us up against the Sept. 30 deadline,” said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy.
Trouble, nonetheless, looms for Johnson and his fractious House GOP conference as they stare down two funding deadlines and try to pass their remaining five appropriations bills, which have run into trouble on the floor and in committee.
Johnson plans to tackle Ukraine funding next, which has become a contentious issue among Republicans.
“I’ve been drinking from Niagara Falls for the last three weeks,” Johnson said on Tuesday. “This will allow everybody to go home for a couple of days for Thanksgiving, everybody cool off — members have been here for, as Leader Scalise said, for 10 weeks, this place is a pressure cooker. And so I think everybody can go home, we can come back, reset, we’re gonna get our group together, we’re gonna map out that plan to fight for those principles.”
Good luck with that.
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(TLB) published this article from ZeroHedge as compiled and written by Tyler Durden
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