Things get pushed back AGAIN…..
Foriegn Aid and other things are NOT in the legislation….
The legislation pushes the funding deadline until March 8 for several agencies, including the departments of Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Energy, Agriculture, Interior, and Housing and Urban Development as well as the Environmental Protection Agency. Financing for most of those agencies was set to expire Saturday just after midnight.
Funding for the rest of the federal government under the bill expires March 22, two weeks later than under current law. The measure now heads to President Biden’s desk for his signature…
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“Here we are again, kicking the can down the road and for other purposes,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.), a leading Freedom Caucus budget hawk, said on the House floor Thursday, “to buy more time to spend more money we don’t have.”
But Johnson and his raucous House Republican conference have very little leverage to exact those spending cuts or policy wins. The Freedom Caucus has routinely blocked procedural votes, stalling business on the House floor in protest of the speaker’s spending decisions.
With only a tiny GOP majority, that’s forced Johnson to court support from Democrats for nearly any legislation to clear the chamber.
“We need a larger majority,” said Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), the hard-right budget hawk who wrote the proposal for the government-wide spending cuts. “It’s almost impossible right now with a two-seat majority.”