This stop-gap agreement will fund the government until March while the two houses of Congress do the details of 12 appropriation bills ….
House RightWingNuts won’t be happy with any agreement that doesn’t have massive cuts, but such a thing isn’t gonna happen…
Democrats will get some of what they want left alone , while Republicans will gets some cuts in Federal program spending….
House Speaker Johnson will need help from Democrats to get around the House RightWingNuts for passage of the legistaion that the Senate would approve and President Biden to sign….
Text of the continuing resolution is expected to be posted online Sunday evening, according to a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Republican leadership is scheduled to hold a conference call with members Sunday at 8 p.m., a GOP lawmaker told The Hill, which will likely include a discussion about the plan to avert a government shutdown.
The proposal — which the House and Senate must approve by Friday night to avoid a partial shutdown — will give the House and Senate more time to complete work on the 12 appropriations bills. Congressional leaders announced a deal on top-line spending numbers last weekend, but appropriators need more time to hash out particulars in each funding bill.
The announcement of the two-step continuing resolution is sure to anger conservative House Republicans, who are traditionally opposed to stopgap legislation and have been averse to GOP leadership cutting deals with Democrats.
The two-step approach, however, is one that was largely favored by House conservatives during the shutdown showdown in November. The structure was seen as a way to avoid a massive, whole-of-government omnibus funding bill in December, which Republicans typically abhor.
As an added wrinkle, hardliners have been demanding that border security be included in any government funding effort, pinning the politically prickly topic to the already convoluted shutdown showdown.
Those dynamics mean that the deal will likely require significant Democratic support to get over the finish line in the House…..