Headline Roundup • November 13th, 2023
Will Johnson's Government Funding Plan Get the Job Done?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has announced a funding plan to avoid a government shutdown that faces an uphill battle in the Democrat-controlled Senate and has some House Republicans wondering how it would work.
Key Quotes: “My opposition to the clean CR just announced by the Speaker to the @HouseGOP cannot be overstated. Funding Pelosi level spending & policies for 75 days – for future ‘promises,’” Rep. Chip Roy (TX) wrote Saturday on X. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) stated that “by adopting the Freedom Caucus’s extreme ‘laddered CR’ approach, Speaker Johnson is setting up a system that will double the number of shutdown showdowns."
For Context: The current stopgap bill expires this week, and Congress needs to approve a CR by Friday night to avoid a shutdown. If Johnson's two-tiered approach fails, he plans to propose a full-year stopgap bill.
How the Media Covered it: Some left-rated sources noted that Johnson's plan lacks sweeping cuts desired by some House Republicans and would need the help of House Democrats to pass. Some right-rated outlets noted that Republican budget hawks won't like keeping spending at current levels, but that keeping spending steady is a step in the right direction.
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New House Speaker Mike Johnson may already be losing his first big clash with the hard-right lawmakers who are making the Republican majority and the nation ungovernable as time races down to yet another federal funding cut-off.
The Louisiana conservative, who was just lifted from obscurity to second in line to the presidency, may soon find himself in the position that doomed his predecessor Rep. Kevin McCarthy — needing Democratic votes to keep the government open.
A funding deadline of Friday night means Washington again faces a wild ride of shutdown brinkmanship...
House Speaker Mike Johnson is on the right track in his Nov. 11 proposal to temporarily continue government funding in two pieces, with a tighter deadline for full-term funding for the easier parts of the budget.
Johnson’s two-part continuing resolution would extend current levels of funding for Agriculture, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy and Water until January 19, with the agencies covered by the eight other “Appropriations” categories extended until Feb. 2. This goes along with Johnson’s pledge next year to pass each of the...
Congress is barreling toward a government shutdown this week as Friday’s funding deadline inches closer, with House Republicans at odds over Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) pitch to keep the lights on in Washington.
Johnson unveiled an unconventional two-step stopgap bill over the weekend, which would extend funding at current levels for some agencies until mid-January and the rest through early February. That proposal, however, is already dividing the fractious House GOP conference, with some hard-line conservatives voicing opposition to the legislation because of the lack of spending cuts.
Top Democrats, meanwhile, have...
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