Common sense and a Winter storm front helped the lawmakers get their act together…..
Republican House Speaker Johnson once again will get Democrats to help him get around his parties RightWingNuts…..
Congress raced toward a pair of votes on Thursday to send President Biden stopgap legislation to fund federal agencies through early March, acting one day before a deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown as leaders toil to enact a longer-term spending plan.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, cleared the way on Wednesday for a midday vote on the measure. It is intended to give Congress time to pass spending bills totaling $1.66 trillion to fund the government through the fall, holding most federal spending steady while bolstering the military.
The legislation “will give Congress time to continue working on the appropriations process to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year,” Mr. Schumer said.
House leaders announced they would take up the measure and quickly pass it in a vote expected by evening, as lawmakers rushed to leave Washington before a predicted snowstorm that they worried could ground flights and strand them in the capital for the weekend.
That would clear the measure for Mr. Biden, who is expected to quickly sign it before the midnight deadline on Friday.
It promised to be an unpleasant experience for Speaker Mike Johnson, who negotiated the overall spending package with Mr. Schumer and has been savaged by the hard right faction in the House for not insisting on greater cuts. He will need significant numbers of Democrats to back the measure given expected Republican opposition.
Even considering the bill represents a reversal by the speaker, who pledged last year never to take up another short-term spending package. But time ran out to enact the 12 individual bills that fund the government, forcing the hand of Mr. Johnson, who does not want House Republicans to be blamed for a disruption in government services heading into elections in November…..
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This was a done deal you notice NO media dire warnings headlines, eh?…..
Bonus Quote of the Day
“It doesn’t matter who is sitting in the speaker’s seat or who has the majority. We keep doing the same stupid stuff.”
— Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), on the House floor.