Biden is stepping on the gas in his efforts to get funding for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and border security….
Reports ARE that the Republican RightWingNuts WILL leave the Speaker to get a supplemental spending bill so that the government will NOT shut down in a few weeks….
One spending bill has been passed by the Republican caucus today, but it has cuts in it and the Senate and President Biden won’t approve it….
We’ll see….
The measure passed in 210-199 vote Thursday afternoon, with just one Republican no vote. It is only the second piece of legislation to cross the floor after the House installed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday….
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The bill cuts more than $5 billion in spending that was passed as part of Democrats’ signature climate, tax and health care bill — which was approved without GOP support last year.
The legislation is unlikely to become law, as the White House has threatened to veto it, but it represents the House Republican position on energy- and water-related issues as they negotiate 2024 funding with the Democrat-led Senate and the White House…
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The bill is one of 12 annual funding bills House Republicans have crafted over the past several months. The party, which had already passed four partisan funding bills prior to October, now aims to pass the remaining seven funding bills in the coming weeks, as Republicans seek to strengthen their hand in eventual spending talks with the Democratic-led Senate.
In a letter to GOP colleagues ahead of securing the top gavel, Johnson offered a plan for the conference to pass its remaining funding bills by mid-November, while proposing another stopgap funding bill through the end of the year in the likely event one is needed….
Well?
Things proabaly ain’t gonna go too good with Johnson as Speaker….
Manu Raju
@mkraju
Mike Johnson foreshadows another clash with WH and Senate over government funding — ahead of Nov. 17 deadline. “If another stop-gap is required, then we do it with certain conditions,” said Johnson, as Ds have pushed for a clean stop-gap
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Chris Cillizza reposted
John Bresnahan
@bresreports
Speaker Mike Johnson says he has “no problems with President Biden personally” but can’t think of any policy they agree on.
Johnson agrees with Hannity that Biden has suffered “cognitive decline”