Bill to fund the government through March 14 unveiled but Johnson's dealmaking with Democrats angers conservatives
Source: CNN Politics
Updated 10:35 PM EST, Tue December 17, 2024
Washington CNN — Lawmakers unveiled a stop-gap spending bill on Tuesday night to prevent a shutdown that funds the government through March 14 and includes $100 billion in disaster relief and other key provisions. The deal would avert a lame duck showdown, instead punting major spending decisions to the incoming Trump administration.
Its release comes as conservatives have grown increasingly frustrated with Speaker Mike Johnson over the negotiations, a warning sign for the House GOP leader who faces a vote to keep the gavel at the start of the new Congress. The deal had been delayed by at least a day as leaders of both parties haggled for their own legislative priorities in the end-of-year package.
In addition to disaster relief, a top priority for Democrats and the Biden administration, Republicans pushed for farm aid and the package includes $10 billion in economic assistance for farmers, an issue that became a massive last-minute negotiation in the package. But the speaker’s late-December dealmaking with Democrats provoked intense anger across his GOP conference.
Many Republicans are irate at the number of provisions that have been tacked onto a bill that was intended to simply extend current funding levels and stop a shutdown. If the measure passes — as expected — it will hand Johnson, incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune and President-elect Donald Trump a major funding headache, and a test of their governing powers, early in 2025.
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You can count the fingers on one hand when they DIDN'T need to do a CR (literally like 4 times over the past almost 50 years). 
but how that would go is up in the air.
