Rep. Dusty Johnson (R.D.) told House members they had until midnight Friday to decide on year-end spending after House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) Plan B deal failed the night before. encouraged them to reach an agreement.
“Everyone around here always says, 'Oh, woe is me.' …The reality is, we need to get this done. If we don't get this done, we'll be very foolish. “And I always believe that cooler heads will prevail and actually do their work in this field,” he said on CNN Friday.
The bipartisan Continuing Resolution (CR) to continue funding the government past Friday's deadline and into the new year is an alliance of incoming presidents, including Elon Musk and ultimately President-elect Trump himself. It came under fire earlier this week after coming under fire from critics.
Musk, who will join Vivek Ramaswamy to head the new Department of Government Efficiency, flooded his social platform X with misinformation about the deal on Wednesday, calling on Republicans to reject it.
President Trump on Wednesday also called for a combination of the debt ceiling and stopgap legislation, issuing a joint statement with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, saying Republicans want more disaster relief and support for farmers. However, he said this is an issue that is being addressed with a temporary funding proposal. wants Congress to pass a “streamlined spending bill” that doesn't give Democrats “everything they want” and involves “raising the debt ceiling.”
President Trump then supported Johnson's Plan B deal, but it was defeated on Thursday night with all 38 House Republicans and all but two Democrats voting against it, raising the possibility of a government shutdown. .
“If we're going to shut down the government, we should start it now under the Biden administration, not after January 20th under 'Trump,'” Trump wrote on Friday. About the true society.
He agreed to Plan C on Friday morning and said it would be voted on later in the day.
“Yeah, yeah, we have a plan,” Mike Johnson said as he entered the Capitol. “We're planning on voting this morning, so stay tuned. We have a plan.”
On CNN, Dusty Johnson praised Louisiana Republicans, saying, “We have disagreements about tactics right now, but ultimately all Republicans want to do the same thing.”
“The more you understand the very difficult situation that Mike Johnson was in, the more you realize what a great job he has done,” he said.
