{"id":16570,"date":"2024-03-07T00:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T00:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/house-passes-460-billion-government-funding-bill-blasted-by-gop-hardliners\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T00:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T00:46:22","slug":"house-passes-460-billion-government-funding-bill-blasted-by-gop-hardliners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/house-passes-460-billion-government-funding-bill-blasted-by-gop-hardliners\/","title":{"rendered":"House passes $460 billion government funding bill blasted by GOP hardliners"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The House of Representatives has passed a $460 billion bill to fund part of the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n

As expected, more Democrats voted for the bill than Republicans, and it passed 339-85. The issue of how to fund the government has splintered the House GOP\u2019s razor-thin majority for much of this congressional term, with Republican hardliners pressuring their conference to drift toward significant spending cuts and conservative policy riders that the Democrats who control the White House and Senate have called nonstarters.<\/p>\n

The 1,050-page bipartisan legislation is a package of six bills dealing with departments and agencies whose funding expires on Friday \u2014 Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); the Justice and Commerce Departments; Energy and Water Development; the Department of Interior; and Transportation and Housing.<\/p>\n

Funding tied to Congress\u2019 six remaining bills, which include the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon, expires on March 22.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital first reported last month that House GOP leaders were planning to jettison an earlier promise to pass 12 individual spending bills, something conservatives rallied around. Sources who spoke with Fox News Digital at the time blamed the Senate\u2019s inaction on the seven individual bills passed by the House, which included elements Democrats dismissed as \u2018poison pills.\u2019<\/p>\n

Confronted with the broken promise during his weekly press conference on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson countered that change was incremental in Washington and pointed out that splitting the 12 bills into at least two packages ended the Democrat-backed tradition of folding them all into a massive \u2018omnibus\u2019 spending bill, which has been the case since 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2018We committed to do 12 separate appropriations bills\u2026 the reason that it\u2019s been so difficult to do it is because Washington has no muscle memory on how to do that,\u2019 Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u2018It takes a long time to turn an aircraft carrier, and we\u2019re doing that gradually. We\u2019re forcing reforms, trying to force Congress back into the mode, the statutory mode, the lawful mode, and the way in which it\u2019s supposed to work with regard to government funding.\u2019<\/p>\n

But GOP hardliners are still unhappy with the bill, arguing Johnson did not fight hard enough for conservative policy reforms and steeper spending cuts.<\/p>\n

The House Freedom Caucus insisted, without elaborating, that it was still an \u2018omnibus\u2019 spending bill.<\/p>\n

\u2018Despite giving Democrats higher spending levels, the omnibus text released so far punts on nearly every single Republican policy priority. Worst of all, the omnibus surrenders Republicans\u2019 leverage to force radical Democrats to the table to truly secure the southern border and end the purposeful, dangerous mass release of illegal aliens into the United States,\u2019 the group said.<\/p>\n

Democrats, meanwhile, were jubilant that the bill did not include right-wing measures on abortion access, transgender care and critical race theory, among others.<\/p>\n

\u2018I am very proud to say we successfully defeated the vast majority of the extreme cuts and hundreds of harmful policy riders proposed by House Republicans,\u2019 Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said before the final vote.<\/p>\n

The bill now heads to the Senate, where it\u2019s expected to pass, before hitting President Biden\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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