Vice President-elect J.D. Vance said he had a “productive conversation” with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) regarding the recently announced government funding bill, Punchbowl News reports. I made it.
Melanie Zanona, Senior Congressional Reporter, Punchbowl News reported After leaving Mr Johnson's office, Mr Vance said the two had had a “productive conversation” and were “in the thick of negotiations” over the continuing resolution (CR), but he said the two men had had “a productive conversation” and were “in the thick of negotiations” over the continuing resolution (CR), but had not yet resolved the issues that were standing in the way. He said he was hopeful that some issues could be resolved.
“VANCE said after leaving the chairman's office that they had had a “productive conversation,'' and that negotiations were ongoing but that he believed they could “resolve some issues here,'' Zanona wrote.
on video Posted When asked by X if he supports a “clean” CR, Vance said he believes President-elect Donald Trump “should support a clean CR as long as it includes raising the debt ceiling.” explained.
“Well, what the president believes is that he should support a clean CR as long as it includes raising the debt ceiling,” Vance said. “That's the president's position, and we're going to promote that.”
Earlier Wednesday, Vance released a joint statement. statement President Trump criticized CR as a “spending bill that gives government censors and Liz Cheney lenient terms.”
The stupidest and most incompetent thing Congressional Republicans ever did was allow our country to reach the debt ceiling in 2025. This is a mistake and something that must be addressed now.
Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would provide a sweetheart clause for government censorship against Liz Cheney. This bill would make it easier to hide the record of the corrupt January 6th commission, which accomplished nothing for the American people and failed to address the security failures that occurred that day. I hid it. The bill would also give Congress a pay raise as many Americans struggle this Christmas.
Raising the debt ceiling isn't great, but I'd much rather do it on Biden's watch. If Democrats won't cooperate on the debt ceiling now, why would anyone think they will do so in June under our administration? Let's have this discussion now. And we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn't give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want.
Republicans want to help farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is through a combination of a temporary funding bill with no aid from Democrats and an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a betrayal of our country.
CR's controversial items include “a one-year extension of the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC), which effectively funds organizations that censor conservative media and contributes to conservative censorship.” are.
The CR also “removes a provision that has been in spending bills since 2009 to block automatic raises in Congress, effectively giving raises to senators and representatives.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and other lawmakers told CR that the bill was “full of pork” and showed Johnson to be “a weak, weak man.”
