With House and Senate Democrats saying they’ll go along with the Republican House Speakers two step spending plan?
There most probably will NOT be a Government shut-down….
Something the WingNuts where willing to have….
But most Congressional Rewpublicans did NOT….
Democrats are on board….
House Republicans on Tuesday are set to try to pass a stopgap bill to fund the government into the new year.
In a surprise late-night announcement, GOP leaders said they would try to move the continuing resolution (CR) under a fast-track processthat will require support from Democrats, an attempt to work around GOP opposition that threatened to tank the bill on a procedural vote.
The gambit is sure to draw howls from the party’s right flank, but Democratic leaders have indicated the party could support the substance of the unusual two-part stopgap….
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House RightWingNuts ain’t happy….
The House Freedom Caucus took an official position against House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan to avert a government shutdown, which he will aim to pass with support from Democrats on Tuesday.
“The House Freedom Caucus opposes the proposed ‘clean’ Continuing Resolution as it contains no spending reductions, no border security, and not a single meaningful win for the American People,” the group said in its position statement, released Tuesday morning. “Republicans must stop negotiating against ourselves over fears of what the Senate may do with the promise ‘roll over today and we’ll fight tomorrow.’”…
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“Hakeem Jeffries won’t publicly say that Democrats plan to — once again — bail out the GOP speaker. But many of his members are privately prepared to do just that,” Politicoreports.
“Inside a closed-door caucus meeting on Tuesday, Jeffries outlined the various ways that Speaker Mike Johnson’s stopgap spending plan is a win for Democrats, though he didn’t directly tell them how to vote on it later Tuesday. Most importantly, he said, there are no spending cuts and no ‘poison pill’ add-ons.”
“As of now, Jeffries and his leadership team aren’t formally whipping their members to support the GOP’s shutdown-averting spending bill.”