House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) announced further plans Friday to avert a government shutdown.
“Yes, yes, we have a plan. We're planning to vote this morning, so stay tuned everyone. We have a plan,” Johnson said. said as he entered the Capitol on Friday morning.
If Congress fails to pass a spending bill by Friday, the government will be shut down.
The House rejected the short-term spending bill after Republican leaders scrapped a compromise with Democrats that was riddled with controversial issues, including carve-outs and benefits to Big Pharma.
Breitbart News' Bradley Jay writes:
An astonishing 38 Republicans voted against the hastily assembled Trump-backed deal, and nine did not vote.
President Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance came forward Wednesday afternoon to push a final gamble on the heart of an earlier agreement negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democrats. Support for the deal quickly surged before Trump took action to reframe the debate, arguing that the next Congress should have included a debt ceiling increase to take this difficult issue off his administration's agenda. It was getting worse.
The new agreement removed more than 1,000 pages of pork and other provisions unrelated to keeping the government open.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris (R-Maryland) said He will accept a clean stopgap spending bill known as a continuing resolution (CR) on Friday morning.
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said“We don't have a deal with the Democrats.”
she added He said the plan would be “very similar to President Trump's plan yesterday.”
President-elect Donald Trump said any government shutdown should be done under President Joe Biden's watch.
It remains unclear whether Democrats and Biden will approve a clean CR to continue funding the government.
“If there is going to be a government shutdown, it should start now under the Biden administration, not after January 20th under the Trump administration. This is a problem for Biden to solve, but one that Republicans can help solve.” If I could, I would!” Trump I wrote.
While many Washington, D.C., residents are worried about the potential impact of a government shutdown, Breitbart News economics editor John Carney says the five-week government shutdown in late 2018 has proven The government shutdown has little impact on the economy, according to the paper.
Sean Moran is a policy reporter at Breitbart News. Follow him on X @SeanMoran3.
