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Republican hardliners are reluctantly accepting defeat in the current fight over short-term government funding.<\/p>\n

House and Senate leaders are working to pass a stopgap funding extension \u2013 known as a continuing resolution (CR) \u2013 aimed at keeping the government from a partial shutdown. Current federal funding expires in two tranches, on Jan. 19 and Feb. 2.<\/p>\n

The issue of federal spending has driven a wedge between different House GOP factions, with conservatives staging several protest votes and even booting former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., from leadership for passing a CR to avoid a shutdown late last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But several of those same GOP rebels are backing away from the idea of repeating the move with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The only people I hear talking about that are you guys,\u2019 House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good, R-Va., told reporters on Wednesday morning when asked about filing a motion to vacate against Johnson.<\/p>\n

Good was one of the eight House Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy in October.<\/p>\n

Now, however, he and other Freedom Caucus members signaled there\u2019s little they could do to stop the bill from passing if House leaders put it forward under suspension of the rules, meaning it will skip a procedural step in exchange for needing two-thirds of the House\u2019s support instead of just a simple majority.<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t have anything to announce at this point,\u2019 Good said when asked about repercussions against House GOP leaders.<\/p>\n

Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital he was \u2018an optimist\u2019 but conceded that there was likely little that conservatives could do to stop the CR from passing.<\/p>\n

\u2018I guess if he puts it on suspension, a lot of Democrats vote for it, maybe that\u2019s a correct statement. But it\u2019s certainly not something I\u2019m going to vote for,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Rep. Dan Bishop, R-S.C., also dismissed talk of ousting Johnson from the speakership. He suggested it was more difficult to \u2018leverage\u2019 Johnson than it was McCarthy.<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019s an honest broker. He is a genuine conservative. He is in the circumstances everybody understands. And the problem is the Republican conference as a whole, and whether or not the members will stand up and demand some substantive, lasting, significant change, conservative change,\u2019 Bishop said.<\/p>\n

But lawmakers outside their circle took a blunter tone when discussing a potential rebellion against this CR.<\/p>\n

\u2018Those individuals have now overplayed their hand,\u2019 Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., said. \u2018I think they\u2019re effectively sidelined because they\u2019ve done it to themselves. They just don\u2019t know when to stop, and it\u2019s more about the fight rather than the result. And that\u2019s just, I think it\u2019s pretty pathetic.\u2019<\/p>\n

If passed, the new CR would extend the two government funding deadlines until March 1 and March 8, respectively.<\/p>\n

It comes after conservatives spent the better part of last week trying to force Johnson to back out of a bipartisan deal on government funding for the remainder of fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n

But Johnson held firm to the deal and similarly defied his hardliners on Wednesday when reaffirming his intent to pass the CR.<\/p>\n

\u2018We need just a little bit more time on the calendar to allow that process to play out. This is what the American people expect and deserve,\u2019 Johnson said during his weekly press conference. \u2018This is the way the law is supposed to work, where individual appropriations bills and not one big massive omnibus spending bill are duly negotiated and amended and priorities fought for. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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