{"id":16248,"date":"2024-03-01T00:46:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T00:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/house-punts-government-shutdown-deadline-to-next-week-after-johnson-forced-to-seek-dem-support-again\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T00:46:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T00:46:26","slug":"house-punts-government-shutdown-deadline-to-next-week-after-johnson-forced-to-seek-dem-support-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/house-punts-government-shutdown-deadline-to-next-week-after-johnson-forced-to-seek-dem-support-again\/","title":{"rendered":"House punts government shutdown deadline to next week after Johnson forced to seek Dem support again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker Mike Johnson bucked the House GOP\u2019s right flank to pass a short-term federal funding bill on Thursday, setting up Congress to avoid a partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n

The bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), extends fiscal 2023\u2019s government funding levels to two deadlines: March 8 and March 22. It passed the House, 320-99.<\/p>\n

Majorities in both parties voted for the bill, although more Democrats than Republicans supported it \u2013 113 GOP lawmakers voted for the CR while 97 voted against, and 207 Democrats voted for it versus just two who were opposed. In a modest win for Johnson, however, this CR got more GOP votes than the extension he put on the House floor in January, which got 107 Republicans\u2019 support.<\/p>\n

Congress is currently operating under a CR passed in January that extended funding for some of its 12 appropriations bills to March 1 and others to March 8.<\/p>\n

House GOP leaders were forced to seek Democrat votes, which were likely anyway, to pass the bill. They fast-tracked it under suspension of the rules, meaning it forgoes the normal process of going through the House Rules Committee and a House-wide procedural vote in exchange for raising the threshold for passage to two-thirds instead of a simple majority.<\/p>\n

It comes after GOP rebels weaponized procedural House votes several times to deliberately sink their own party\u2019s legislation as a protest against leadership.<\/p>\n

Many of those same rebels have pushed Johnson to allow for the government to shut down instead of extending the previous Democrat-controlled Congress\u2019 funding levels. They argued that a shutdown, even a partial one, would give House Republicans leverage to push for conservative policies.<\/p>\n

With expected furloughs of federal employees and suspension of government programs, however, a government shutdown is a politically perilous outcome for both Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n

This is the fourth CR the House has passed since fiscal 2023 ended on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

\u2018We have to be willing to do what\u2019s difficult to save America. I\u2019m not scared of a government shutdown if it\u2019s the price we need to pay to secure our border, get our debt under control and stop the government from going after my fellow Americans,\u2019 said Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., a member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus.<\/p>\n

But Johnson said during his weekly press conference that it would buy negotiators just enough time to release legislative text for their first six spending bills over the weekend while avoiding the negative effects of a partial shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u2018All of our members will have 72 hours to review it. That\u2019s our commitment. That\u2019s our rule. We\u2019re respecting it. And that\u2019s the only reason we need the process CR, to allow us time to do that,\u2019 Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u2018If I did it the way \u2026 [former House] Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi did, we just drop that bill and vote on it within hours. We\u2019re not going to do that.\u2019<\/p>\n

The CR must now pass the Senate and be signed by President Biden to avoid a partial shutdown at midnight on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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