House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing opposition from fellow Republicans regarding a stopgap spending bill designed to prevent a government shutdown. The bill, which extends funding until March 14, includes disaster aid, healthcare policy extensions, and a congressional pay raise, drawing criticism from President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance. Trump and Vance advocate for a streamlined bill without Democratic concessions and urge Republicans to increase the debt ceiling, injecting a new element into the already tense negotiations.
Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a revolt from his fellow Republicans over a last-minute measure to keep the government funded into the spring and avoid a shutdown, with an increasing number of allies — including President-elect Donald Trump — objecting to billions of dollars in spending that have been added to the bill.Lawmakers are facing a Friday deadline to approve new spending.
Before the text of the bill was released, Johnson dismissed Republican concerns that the continuing resolution was equivalent to an 'omnibus' bill, a term used when Congress packages the annual appropriations bills that fund many federal government agencies into one large piece of legislation.'This is not an omnibus, OK?' Johnson said at his weekly news conference on Tuesday. 'This is a small that we had to add things to that were out of our control.
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